So, I’ve been busy with non-OpenChord stuff for the last month or two, but I finally cleaned a few things up and took a video of the MIDI update in action. Like the video mentions, if you’ve already got a V1, all you have to do is download the new firmware and flash it onto your kit – instructions on how to do that are in the last post. Basically, in addition to being a kick-ass Guitar Hero controller, the OpenChord V1 is now ALSO the world’s most inexpensive MIDI guitar. Of course, like I mentioned in the last post, there are a number of limitations – only certain chords are supported (although additional chords are easy to add in the firmware, depending on what you need), and the note velocity is constant. Also, you’re not really going to be able to play with a capo. Still, there are a lot of interesting things you can do with it, and really, it’s kinda fun to play a guitar that sounds like bells!