Re: $280 Midi Guitar Coming from Fender

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

Bill Fox wrote:

>  However, I 
> suspect (but have no empirical data) that a total dive bomb would cause 
> at least a little havoc.  

It would stop tracking when the limit of midi pitch bend
was reached.
Usually at 12 semitones.
If you used an open low E string it might give up some
time before that, as the range of pitch detection
usually won't go much below the range of the guitar.

>Does anyone have the hardware to try out such 
> a thing?  :)  I'd like to hear your test results...

I have experimented with pitch bend range, but not with a whammy,
just with bends and with fretless bass.
It seemed to work as expected.
One side effect is that with a wavetable patch the sample
will be bent out of it's best sounding range. 
Didn't record audio tho :-(

andy