Topic: Rytmik: Rock Ed. technical question

I was wondering if this machine has full guitar chords sampled or if you can build your own guitar (or piano or whatever) chords - I have heard many tunes built with Rytmik Rock Edition, but most of them are based on drum beats + guitar or bass riffs + frills.
I will be travelling to the US for a month and I won't be able to bring a guitar, so I was really interested in purchasing a software that allows you to jot down chord progressions over a drum pattern.
cheers!

I've bought it, and it's definitely not what you think it is. I guess if you're willing to sit there on your ds for a couple hours to create a short instrumental it's worth it, but you're not going to create a symphony or a top 40 radio song with this thing. You're better off getting the virtual guitar or virtual piano on dsiware for the same price. Also there's a jam sessions game that goes for like $5 for the ds where you can practice guitar chords.

Yeah I have Jam Sessions - it's not a bad game but they force you to use that stupid "strumming simulator" so you get - they say - the feel of playing proper guitar that is really worthless. It would be much, much better if you could touch a button and the chord would just ring by itself for a number of bars. What I need, in a nutshell, is a music tool that allows me to program (and record possibly) a sequence of chords (any instrument would do).

I suppose you could build a chord by picking the individual notes that make that particular chord and put them on different rows - so when they ring together on your sequencer, you get an approximated chord, but I'm not a trained musician so it would take me a good while to count the required notes on the scales...if I had a guitar it would be a different matter, but constructing chord out of thin air is still difficult for me.
I'll try out the virtual guitar on dsiware - it's cheap, so even if it's not perfect there's no loss (Rytmik is 4 times the US price here in Europe!).

Yeah virtual guitar is exactly what is sounds like. No games or gimmicks, it's just strumming. I think virtual piano had some lessons too, but if I remember correctly, it also has a freestlye piano.

And yeah for $2 you get some club nintendo stars and a guitar on the go.

If you're planning to use clean guitar then Rytmik RE isn't that bad for making chords.

A goood way to make them sound organic is to put the notes of the chord in the same channel, one just next to the other, you have to select polyphonic in order to get the sound you want, I guess polyphonic X is just fine as long as you don't use very complex chords.

I think you should try putting each chord note by note, it'll help you learning the patterns.