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

[Chris Sewell <lunamusic@mac.com>]

I had a 99. I hated it. It made me sound like a Roland demo at a Namm  
show. If you know what I mean. :)
Besides, the AxonAX50 tracks really well.
I actually got Trilian for free as I was a Trilogy user that switched  
to an intel mac.

Chris


On Oct 29, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Per Boysen wrote:

> 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
>> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>> Subject: A great example of how far music technology has come
>>
>> http://www.spectrasonics.net/instruments/trilian_videos.php
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