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Why don't more companies try to come up with touch sensitive necks with a vibration sensor for each string, like the old Casio MIDI guitar (not the real guitar with the hex pickup, but the plastic ones they marketed). Isn't this how the Starr guitar controllers work? I imagine it could work with any string instrument. Mark On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 12:41 PM, Alan Kroeger wrote: > Yes Stuart I am afraid you are right, I am actually toying with making > my own piezo pickup and running into the > GK-2a monophonic just to try and find a way to improve the situation. > If > it worked (midi violin) there would be just an incredible amount of > sonic possibilities including looping that would become available to > the > Violin player, but alas it just doesn't work yet even in the overpriced > Zeta product. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Wyatt (Solo String Project) > [mailto:loopers-delight@solostring.com] > Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 3:09 PM > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: [OT] Violin midi (was average age of the looping community) > > > > On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 08:50 PM, Alan Kroeger wrote: > >> if I could just get a MIDI >> Violin Pickup that worked, oh well maybe in a few more years. ;-) > > You'll have a long wait I think :( > The problem with the violin is that it produces one of the largest > range of sounds/harmonics, and midi pickups (read Zeta) as you have > probably found out just do not work. Latency, ghost notes, no dynamics > etc. etc. I tried one once, and was not impressed. > > Jon Rose has a custom midi pickup that he has made for his Hyperstring > project (http://www.jonroseweb.com/f_projects_hyperstring.html) whereby > he uses a midi pickup on the violin to detect the tone, a motion > detector on the bow and a pedal to control the volume. I've never seen > him play, but I think that his ideas are certainly a step in the right > direction. > > -- > Stuart Wyatt (Solo String Project) - http://SoloString.com >