Re: Sonuus Guitar to Midi

["Christo Jota" <chris@christojota.de>]

Not sure if I understand what you mean, Andy.
But will play around with all these options with semitones
and pitch bend etc.
You´re probably right when saying I have to learn to damp the other 5
strings.
But that probably keeps me from a relaxed way of playing...
Christo

----- Original Message -----
From: "andy butler" <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: Sonuus Guitar to Midi


> Christo Jota wrote:
> > About 10 days ago I got a Sonuus G2M - Guitar to midi converter
> > (monophonic).
> > My impressions after checking it out are:
> > The fast, accurate not tracking which is advertised in the manual is 
>not
> > possible. I mainly use it for soft snyth-sounds . Not for fast playing
> > notes.
> > Just to give my guitar playing a smooth backing sound. Like a melotron
etc.
> > But even with that you have to concentrate a lot on playing very
accurate.
> > Otherwise you hear wrong notes very soon
>
> The Sonuus isn't the fastest tracking device around, but it's very
playable,
> and is exceptionally glitch resistant.
>
> I'm afraid you just have to learn to damp the other 5 strings while
> playing a note if you want it to behave.
>
> You could always attach some sort of mechanical damping at the nut
> to stop the open strings ringing in the same way that the guys
> who do 2 handed tapping do.
>
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> >
> > I also checked the pitch-bend advise from the manual, but it didn´t
help:
> > " to ensure that the midi sounds are correctly in tune
> > with the guitar, you have to ensure the Midi patch is set to a
pitch-bend
> > range of + - 2 semitones."
>
> "set the pitch bend range in your  *synth* to 2 semitones".
>
> If you've been using those patches with another midi controller,
> likely they'll be set to 12 semitones.
>
> ...and any note bend would be exaggerated by 6x
>
> That's a drawback with the simplicity of the Sonuus, because pitch
> bend is 2 semitones it means if you bend a note *just* past that limit
> you get a re-trigger.
>
>
> andy
> ps.  Per, the Sonuus is *mono*
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