Re: [microsound] (OT) Midi Guitar?

[graham miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i have a roland gr-33 unit which does this (the gr-30 was the earlier model).
you need a special hex pickup from roland that has to be bought separately.
with this pickup you can also use the vg-88 COSM machine. the synth engine in
the gr-33 is utter crap but it sends midi, albeit at a lesser level of tracking
perfection than when using the internal sounds. aside from actually midi guitar
units, there are pitch to midi converters, but tracking is an issue. i'd go
with the roland unit. it's the best, although that's not saying much. tracking
has improved immensely over the years but it's far from perfect. there's also
the GI-20 with no synth.

check out: http://www.rolandus.com/products/subcategory.asp?catid=6&subcatid=0

best,

g.

scott allison wrote:

> Sorry about the OT of this post, but...
>
> Anyone know anything about a possible patch that would turn a regular guitar
> into a midi sending instrument? One of my friends at work got that new apple
> program garageband and now is interested in using his guitar to play the
> midi instruments that program contains, I sort of have been trying to
> explain that, it really dosent work that way unless you engineer something
> with max or another type of app that MIGHT allow one to do this, but you
> would probably have to rig the guitar so that it could send midi. I guess in
> some ways this sort of relates to the last post about keffee mattews and
> weather. Just to clairfiy, not looking for a way to send audio produced by
> the guitar into a computer, but using a guitar to send midi, I am pretty
> sure this is not a everyday thing... I know, just use a keyboard...
>
> Thanks for you time.
>
> best
> scott
>
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