Re: A great example of how far music technology has come

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

A good trick with MIDI guitar is to send each string's MIDI on a
separate MIDI channel. Then set the synth to six monophonic voices
with pitch bend set to 12 semi tones. If your gear can work that way,
check if Trilian supports such a setup. If it does, there's a fair
chance it works ok with MIDI guitar.

(I have not used Trilian in particular, but played a lot of MIDI
guitar - enough to hate it)

Trilian is quite pricey, so why don't you save up for a VG-99 instead?
There you have no tracking, resulting in better timing and more
expressive playability since it is working the real sound of the audio
input.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com



On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Jeff Larson <jeff.larson@sailpoint.com> 
wrote:
> Has anyone used Trilogy or Trilian with a guitar-to-MIDI converter?
> It seems to be designed mostly for keyboard players to simulate the
> various articulations you have with stringed instruments.  For 
>controllers
> that can actually do slides, hammer-ons, etc. does it still feel
> relatively natural to the player?
>
> I have guitar synths so I know they always feel a bit funny,
> I'm just curious if the keyboard controller bias gets in the way.
>
> I would think hammer-ons & pull-offs would work well provided the
> MIDI converter handles legato correctly.  Using "shift keys" to
> get to glides and X-notes wouldn't work so well with a guitar controller
> but I guess you could access those with a footswitch.
>
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Sewell [mailto:lunamusic@mac.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:21 PM
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> Subject: A great example of how far music technology has come
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