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the idea of buying a “Rock Band 3 Fender Mustang Pro-Guitar Controller”, keeps spinning in my head
a plastic guitar controller with 102 fret buttons (6 strings × 17 frets), 6 short strummable metal strings, and a MIDI out port
it's not a guitar, but it's supposed to teach it
the logic of getting one goes like this:
- i love weird products like this
- rock band is fun and playing the pro mode with this would maybe force me to learn more guitar chords and improve my sense of rhythm
- this would let me combine guitar muscle memory with my midi devices
the logic of not getting one goes like this:
- wouldn't i prefer to have the other rock band 3 pro guitar controller, which is an actual guitar
- anything that's an excuse to not play actual guitar is probably bad???
- won't i regret having another burdensome physical thing
also there's this thing called “rocksmith” which is not obsolete software relying on obsolete hardware or emulation and which achieves the same guitar practice ends without having to obtain a weird physical controller
oh no there is actually someone selling one of the rock band 3 squiers (a very different thing: it's a ACTUAL ELECTRIC GUITAR but with an integrated midi system) in sweden. this is really going to test my restraint i really want to obtain that rare and bizarre organism hhhhhhh
(they're very compromised i will surely regret obtaining one so i probably won't but, god)
okay this is very funny. somehow i have followers on the fediverse, and not on the other two websites, that have both species of weird rockband 3 guitar controllers, and i never found out about it until right now. amazing