re: YARG and Clone Hero not able to acknowledge button strike during play even though I have everything binded correctly. Score stays at zero. What am I missing?

Ok. I have a silly dilemma but can't figure it out. I have a CRKD Neo S Controller with a 5 Fret Guitar Grip. In YARG, I binded the controllers and the button presses work BUT I can't strike on any of the buttons to change the score from 0. I tried keyboard and the same thing happens. No strikes. I switched to Clone Hero, and the same thing happens. Controller and keyboards binds fine. I can press the buttons and it is acknowledge but the score doesn't change when I strike and even no acknowledgement of a strike. I tried casual on YARG, makes no difference. I was going to try it on another PC but just curious, what am I missing? I tried wired, bluetooth, keyboard..makes no difference.