Smart Midi Guitar, black (SG7)

In my experience, guitar/midi interfaces rely upon the manufactures hardware / software environment matching exactly the user’s hardware / software environment. This has never happened in my experience. Fishman TriplePlay. Sonuus. Too much latency etc.There are many discussions online spanning many years about this subject. I will let you know what my experience is with this one.5/22/2024 - This finally arrived from China so I won't bother returning it. I plugged it into a Windows 11 PC running FL Studio DAW. Zero latency, and that is enough reason to keep this tiny thing.It came with a USB micro to USB A, adjustable guitar strap, tuning tool and instructions in English / Mandarin. I did not bother with the instructions. Just plug it into a USB port to start charging. Press the power button and start playing with the settings / figure out the menus etc. Easy enough.It has a speaker, volume wheel and has two guitar sounds; acoustic and electric. I use none of these. Just turn down the volume wheel and use it as a controller. There is a sensitivity setting. I’d rather leave it off in my experience.The strings are too sensitive for me. This is way too small for me to enjoy playing. Zero audible latency is why I’m keeping this. I will eventually be removing some of the left-hand and / or right-hand strings to make more space for my fingers. Zero audible latency : )

I wasn't so sure about this smart guitar but took a chance and decided to give it a try. It turns out I like this better than I imagined. For the price it's really a nice little unit to practice your guitar chords with or without sound. Just plug in your headphone and you won't be bothering anyone. When I first tried it the G string had a dull sound. I thought I received a bad unit but going thru the set-up I discovered you can adjust individual string tensions. Once adjusted, it sounded fine. Perhaps this isn't for advanced guitarists but for someone like me who just wants to practice various chords, it's perfect.

I tried to give this guitar away for free. The person I gave it to is now trying to give it away again. I hate it so much.

This beats the original version in this form factor (jam-something-or-other) because it doesn't require bluetooth and a phone or tablet to play basic acoustic or electric guitar. None of that annoying bluetooth delay. Good for practicing chords (with or without headphones) and carrying with you when you just want to do some strumming.

Now you can play the guitar at night without disturbing the neighbors with the use of headphone either connected from headphone jack or from headphones connected to iPhone using garage band software free to iPhone users using a Bluetooth signal and you can play other instruments with GarageBand app like piano violins drums and bass guitar and record with GarageBand software or a separate multitrack recorder with more than one note played at the same time and no one will complain about how late you play this midi controller

I didn't expect much from this for the price, but wow! No perceived delay when playing unless playing over bluetooth, which is to be expect. Great little gadget!

I should’ve just bought a standard travel guitar for around the same price…the sound on this midi guitar gets delayed at normal to fast playing speeds. I had high hopes for this product but was highly disappointed in how cheap it feels and how poor the sound reaction is. Would not recommend

I looooove this guitar so much. I take it with me everywhere and question my life choices.PROS:- you cant tune the strings separately you can only tune all six strings as a whole, amazing!- you cant change a note once its hit, so if you hit the 6 sting, let it play and press on the fret to change the note will not change. I love how this keeps me from trying to play more complicated stuff and keeping me in my lanes.- you cant slide notes, that because the technology use to detect the frets is only when the string presses on 2 lines of the fret board, so there is those 128 sensors being put to work- the way the strings are tide in a way that makes it almost impossible to keep the strings down on the first fret of the board, it will Definity take weeks but i appreciated how strong my index finger will be.CONS:- its small but not small enough to fit in a bag- the price is cheap but still expensive for a this kind of guitar