Casio MIDI Guitar

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Contributor Since: Sep 09, 2002

Question for Noize2U or anyone who's had any experience getting MIDI equpiment repaired:

I bought a Casio MG-500 MIDI guitar from a local pawn shop a few years ago for $145, in excellent condition except the MIDI portion of wasn't working. It's a sweet guitar, awesome neck, high output pick-ups, easily the best playing and sounding guitar I own. I think these things were built for Casio by the Ibanez factory. I really recommend one to anyone who comes across one.

Here's the problem: At first the MIDI portion of the guitar was kinda working sometimes. It would sometimes send notes, but it wasn't usually the right note and most of the time it just didn't work. Over the two years or so I've owned it the problem has gotten progressively worse until more recently it's just not working at all. I can't find alot of info on these things but apparently the Roland MIDI guitars that came out around the same time, which are very similar it seems, the Rolands seem to have a need for their capacitors to be replaced. Apparently after 20 years they fail to store a charge anymore and need replaced. I was hoping to get a professional opinon from one of you MIDI gurus on what I might do to get this thing repaired, who I need to talk to, how much should a job like this cost, etc. Or can I do it myself? I'm not even sure it's the caps. I really have no way of knowing.

Ultimately this is a fabulous guitar. Incredible neck, superb action, high output S-S-H pickups w/ coil tap and a 5-way selector, plus is just LOOKS damn cool. Even if I can't get the MIDI working again, this will still be my favorite guitar (besides my 5-string hehe, don't wanna make my baby jealous). Anybody have any advice/experience to offer? thanks in advance -j

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Since: Apr 03, 2002


Jul 22, 2003 10:14 am

A buddy of mine years ago (bastard still owes me $900) has one of those Casio MIDI guitars. The MIDI features of those are really weird, I never really dug it to much, MIDI sounds much better and more accurate coming from a synth with exact notes, with guitars you have slight bends on the string, fret noise and other odd stuff that can interfere with it, not to mention the slight latency. It's kinda strange. It's a good idea on paper, but in the real world I found it unusual.

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Since: Jul 01, 2002


Jul 23, 2003 11:57 am

ive always wanted one of those midi guitars...you can get midi pick ups to fit to fenders and lessies now to convert em...

youre right though db, from what ive heard you gotta be pretty spot on with what you play or it can soon be a filthy mess...

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