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<div>If I understand correctly ( which is something not sure :) ... </div>
<div>When you play on your guitar ( with a midi setup) you don't play the guitar like a "normal guitarist" but more in the way of a "independent player" with a "magic stick instrument ". which sounds completely different than a normal guitar sound. </div>
<div>( depending on the chosen library ). In another way to describe what you meant is :</div>
<div>You adapt yourself to the sound instead to follow the "guitarist music theory" ? </div>
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<div>But now Matt wrote "It is totally playable." ... ( also for bending ??? ) </div>
<div>Now I feel a bit confused ,</div>
<div>Anyhow I will check Terratec Axon and Graphtech piezo pickups that Matt advised ...</div>
<div>I'm quite curious to hear what comes out of those products ... :P </div>
<div>Thank you for the inputs ...</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Tony Hardie-Bick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony@entity.net">tony@entity.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi Romain :)<br>
<div class="im"><br>Romain / rXg wrote:<br>> Already in the past I checked about Midi and Guitars ,<br>> One problem that I discovered at the time was to convert the sound in<br>> data when the guitarist play a note bended ( it seemed to be difficult<br>
> to calculate the pitch of it properly, I think it s what you mean in<br>> number 1) ...<br>> I was hopping today it could be possible , more "playable "<br></div>> ...<br>
<div class="im"><br>> Maybe a day I will try but I don t want to invest in something just for<br>> the reason to try it :)<br>> Did you tried one once ?<br><br></div>Yeah - I have a guitar-to-midi converter, I used it on guitar to get a string<br>
texture behind the guitar notes. It worked well for that, because tracking etc<br>are not important at all, I just wanted to have some notes that were vaguely<br>related to what I was playing...<br><br>Then I moved on to another instrument, which, I also have a midi pickup for, and<br>
could be used with that system, but, I really went into a different philosophy<br>of sound, which is to investigate the voice the instrument is "trying" to sing<br>with, rather than imagine I have a better idea than the strings, pickups and<br>
fretboard. They know. I learn from them :)<br><br>I'm sure midi from guitar works in some instances, maybe sometimes for complex<br>parts, but, there is information lost - the information one is tempted to say<br>"does not matter" ;)<br>
<br>And digital recording makes all the details available to the listener, in a way<br>that was not possible when the guitar first got *loud*, in 1930 or so, or,<br>whenever. Now, the detail is there. And I wanna listen :)<br>
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<div></div><br>-- <br>Romain<br>