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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com> wrote: > Blue would presumably mean GR-300. That's what I as well assumed. In the early eighties I played Matheny inspired original compositions with another guitar player (+ add stand-in drummers and bassists) and this band mate picked up the GR-300 right on the release (Matheny used it in a lovely way on the White Falcon soundtrack by that time). I had the chance to play it quite a lot and did not like it so much because of its vibrato solutions: you press a knob to get that IMHO "ugly and cheesy" LFO vibrato. No way to work with alternate tempo changes in the vibrato while playing long notes, which is quite limiting. But the triggering was great and it sounded just like an analog synth, which might be a good thing if you fancy that. In a later band, doing industrial goth metal, I used a normal MIDI pickup (the Casio MG501), and although the triggering was slow this worked out very well in the band context since I just layered slow attack synth sounds behind the real humbucker crunch sound. I tried to record MIDI into computer sequencers (and an Alesis MMT8) but had to give it up because of the latency caused by the slow tracking that also got worse by low pitched notes. Today, if I want to double a monophonic guitar/stick line in a studio recording I simply record the audio as it is and have the DAW convert a copy of it into MIDI. Gets the job done with less hassle. If I want to play "something synth" with a great feel I use an EWI to play the MIDI synth directly; I don't think any string instrument will ever be capable of offering the subtle expression control you get with a 4000s. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se www.perboysen.com www.looproom.com internet music hub