[LAU] USB guitar newbie

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, lanas wrote:

>  A colleague at work offered me to try his newly-bought cheap ($150)
> USB guitar.  He hasn't tried it himself, waiting to build a workstation

the iAxe?

> dedicated to it.  So I'm wondering, are these guitars outputting
> through USB actual MIDI notes as a regular MIDI guitar would (eg. the
> Godin MULTIAC nylon string guitars ...) enabling playing, say,
> zynaddsubfx from the guitar ?

These are probably just outputting audio data (like the 
iAxe).  These appear to your PC as an audio sound card (like 
a USB microphone would).

I wouldn't expect MIDI unless the vendor actually advertises 
it as a MIDI controller.

-gabriel