Re: $280 Midi Guitar Coming from Fender

["Mark Showalter" <folkstone57@operamail.com>]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: $280 Midi Guitar Coming from Fender
> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:53:14 +0000
> 
> 
> Mark Showalter wrote:
> > Hello Andy,
> >
> > I was referring to the use of a whammy bar, if I understood the 
> > post I was responding to. The GR-30 can be set per patch to use 
> > either fixed pitches or to respond to bends, &
> > it does a fairly good job of it. The problem with using a whammy 
> > bar would be that all of the strings would be varying in pitch & 
> > that would be a lot of info to try to track.
> 
> So that's a hypothetical?

What's a hypothetical?

> Or a known fault of the GR-30?

ibid
 
> > I also think that there would be no way for the MIDI synth to 
> > know which string was actually being played
> 
> Actually there is a way which is, afaik, is standard to midi guitar.
> Don't know if the GR-30 does this, but would be a significant lack
> if it didn't.
> Each string is broadcast on a separate channel.
> You need to use that mode if you're combining any sort
> of pitch bend with any playing style that sounds more
> than one note at a time.

My point here was if you played a note on say the 2nd string of the guitar 
& then whammy-ed away at it, just the fact that the strings are ALL being 
bent would problalbly cause problems. I'm aware of the way a MIDI p/u is 
designed to track each string, but a whammy would bend strings that aren't 
being played/used, which would probably cause some problems. Just thinking 
out loud here. 

> andy butler

>



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