petersontuners to

[Romain / rXg]

Tony,Matt

If I understand correctly ( which is something not sure :)  ...
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.
( depending on the chosen library ). In another way to describe what you
meant is :
You adapt yourself to the sound instead to follow the "guitarist music
theory" ?

But now Matt wrote  "It is totally playable." ...  ( also for bending ??? )
Now I feel a bit confused ,
Anyhow I will check Terratec Axon and  Graphtech piezo pickups that Matt
advised ...
I'm quite curious to hear what comes out of those products ...  :P
Thank you   for the inputs  ...
 :)


On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Tony Hardie-Bick <tony at entity.net> wrote:

> Hi Romain :)
>
> Romain / rXg wrote:
> > Already in the past I checked about Midi and Guitars ,
> > One problem that I discovered  at the time  was to convert the sound in
> > data when the guitarist play a note bended ( it seemed to be difficult
> > to calculate the pitch of it properly, I think it s what you mean in
> > number 1)  ...
> >  I was hopping today it could be possible , more "playable "
> > ...
>
> > Maybe a day I will try but I don t want to invest in something just for
> > the reason to try it :)
> > Did you tried one once ?
>
> Yeah - I have a guitar-to-midi converter, I used it on guitar to get a
> string
> texture behind the guitar notes. It worked well for that, because tracking
> etc
> are not important at all, I just wanted to have some notes that were
> vaguely
> related to what I was playing...
>
> Then I moved on to another instrument, which, I also have a midi pickup
> for, and
> could be used with that system, but, I really went into a different
> philosophy
> of sound, which is to investigate the voice the instrument is "trying" to
> sing
> with, rather than imagine I have a better idea than the strings, pickups
> and
> fretboard. They know. I learn from them :)
>
> I'm sure midi from guitar works in some instances, maybe sometimes for
> complex
> parts, but, there is information lost - the information one is tempted to
> say
> "does not matter" ;)
>
> And digital recording makes all the details available to the listener, in a
> way
> that was not possible when the guitar first got *loud*, in 1930 or so, or,
> whenever. Now, the detail is there. And I wanna listen :)
>
> Tony (HB)
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Romain
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