Re: best desktop guitar midi interface?

["Kris Hartung" <krispen.hartung@gmail.com>]

I think John Abercrombie played one for a while too, right? I liked his 
sound and use of it better than Pat's, especially on his version of Stella 
by Starlight.
I wish Roland would make a reissue, but improved version of the GR300. 
Yeah, I know...VG..but its different.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Per Boysen
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 1:22 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: best desktop guitar midi interface?

I've played one and did not like the vibrato button. Back when it was
produced there wasn't any technology available to make the strings
control micro tuning of the synth engine. But I liked some music Pat
Metheney made with the GR300. I just couldn't stand pressing down a
button to apply vibrato, felt stiff and not very musical.

Per


On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Don't we all?
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> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Kris Hartung <krispen.hartung@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > I want a GR300.  :)
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Per Boysen
> > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 12:56 PM
> > To: Loopers-Delight
> > Subject: re: best desktop guitar midi interface?
> >
> >
> > I know about no guitar MIDI interface that doesn't lag if playing
> > synths. But I've heard many say like Krispen, that the Axon is
> > fastest. But I guess those who still own a used Axon hold on to them
> > and they might be hard to find. Regarding McLaughlin I assume that he
> > has learned to play with latency from many concerts on large stages
> > (where the speaker may have to be far from his playing position - some
> > five meters distance and you have the same latency as MIDI conversion,
> > except the annoying fact that MIDI triggering goes slower the lower
> > notes you play. When I had a MIDI guitar in the eighties I used to
> > play bass lines high up on the two thinnest strings and set the
> > guitar's built-in MIDI interface to transpose MIDI Notes down by three
> > octaves before sending them out to the synth = much faster triggering
> > that way).
> >
> > A way to have no latency is to not use MIDI but play synths directly
> > with Roland's GR-55 system. The GR-55 can also be used as a MIDI
> > interface; just plug a USB cable from it into a computer. But the MIDI
> > stuff will play a bit after the synth notes.
> >
> > There's a new Guitar MIDI pickup and wireless MIDI interface soon to
> > ship; the Fishman TriplePlay. A YouTube video from NAMM here:
> > http://youtu.be/_nKhlmJ4EeI
> >
> > If you're fine with monophonic playing you also have the little Sonus
> > i2M, review here:
> > http://www.guitarmoderne.com/gear-2/gear-review-sonuus-i2m-synth-musicport
> >
> > Greetings from Sweden
> >
> > Per Boysen
> > www.perboysen.com
> > http://www.youtube.com/perboysen
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Luis Angulo <louie.angulo@yahoo.com> 
> > wrote:
> > > Hi gang,im thinking of buying a guitar midi interface to trigger plugins
> > > and
> > > software synths but i thought i check with you before i buy
> > > which one would you recomend or is the best tracking one out here?
> > > ive been considering a used GI-20
> > > thanx!
> > >
> > > http://www.myspace.com/luisangulocom