Re: Fretless MIDI guitar

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

At 1:58 PM -0600 1/2/03, Catilyne wrote:

>In addition to the modules you mentioned above (I've got a Matrix 
>1000 which works great for this, BTW), I'd also recommend some of 
>the later Sequential stuff as well.  I can personally vouch for the 
>Prophet 2002, Prophet VS, and Studio 440.

These are all older models designed by some of the inventors of MIDI. 
It's unfortunate that certain features have not been implemented in 
newer instruments. For instance, something I've always enjoyed is 
MIDI Note Off velocity. My Oberheim Xk keyboard sends this, and my 
Eventide H3000 can respond to it, so that a parameter could have one 
value (such as delay feedback) on note on and a different one on note 
off. Very expressive. Polyphonic Aftertouch is another MIDI message 
that go lost in the shuffle. Even in "the day" it was almost unseen 
on cheaper instruments.

>I'm also curious if there are any current MIDI processing programs 
>out there which could accomplish a similar function on existing 
>hardware (i.e. take an incoming MIDI note number then map it to a 
>MIDI note + pitchbend value).

I could whip one up in a few minutes with Max:

Use the incoming note number as an index to a table of pitch bend 
values and send these out along with a note message at a fixed note 
number.

There are no doubt some other MIDI programming languages that could 
do this, and there are even some hardware pieces that might.


>I used to use an Atari program called UltraMidi with my Yamaha G-10 
>to accomplish something similar

Circa 1987. They've since gone uptown.

http://www.mindovermidi.com/


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