MIDI Guitar Question

Check out the Axon AX-50 or the Roland GI-20.

Best plan is to buy a second hand roland gtr synth on ebay - I have used a GR-09 for about 10+ years and have never used the internal sounds.

Here is an example of one on ebay..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Roland-GR-09-GR9E-1-Expanded-6Mbyte-Guitar-SynthesizerW0QQitemZ370203428974QQcmdZViewItemQQptZKeyboards_MIDI?hash=item370203428974&trksid=p3286.m63.l1177

the pedals are useful for octave shift when playing - other than that its a brick !

Good luck.
Ian

The Roland GI-20 is a useful piece of kit. It allows you to set up all sorts of different tunings without having to retune your guitar. The footswitch socket will take Roland's double pedal. This will let you have two different hold functions on the same patch. Very useful in a lot of situations. It will also take an expression pedal as well. This can be re-assigned in Logic or MainStage to do all sorts of things.

The axon-50 works great. The tracking is much better than with the Roland GR-1 that I used to own. They are about $500 retail.

I have both and use the Axon Ax-50 with Logic.
Tracking is much better.
AX-50 is harder to setup but is great once you set it up to how you play.
Have to use software editor.
Splits are great!

The Gr synth's midi out is slower than the Gi-20 and the Axon-50.
Axon is the fastest.

Brian
http://www.guitarhelper.net/midi13pininterfaces.html

The "middle man" is necessary to translate the hex pickup signal to midi messages.
I'm using the Roland GI-20 with the GK-3 pickup ($200 on craigslist)
and it's mindblowing. I'm not a keyboard player, so this has opened up a huge sonic palette for me.
The GI-20 does not have internal sounds, you can trigger any sound on any of Logic's virtual instruments.
What the GI-20 does do is let you fine tune the response of the pickup for feel, sensitivity, playing style, alternate tunings, mono/poly modes, program change, pitch bend, string mute, etc, etc...
You can save and recall up to 5 different settings.
Google the manual and read about it.
John McLaughlin has used one for years.
So it's not just some dumb box.

Robert Raposo wrote:

You can save and recall up to 5 different settings.

Surely you mean up to 50 different settings? That's what I have on my GI-20 🙂

Must have been a typo - or was it a type 0 😉

Yamaha also made one around the turn of the millennium

That'll be the Yamaha G-50! Definitely one to consider.

Sadly discontinued, but they do turn up on ebay.

Robert Raposo wrote:
Must have been a typo - or was it a type 0 😉

I think it was the 'Thai po'.

sorry - i'm outta here.

J

I had one, actually, as well as the G1D pickup. It worked pretty well. Ultimately, there were too many false positives (read: tracking issues) so I could did use it much. I found it more responsive than the Roland under typical setup (i.e. guitar, standard tuning, using 9s or 10s), but I installed it on a baritone guitar (tuned down 1 octave, and using very heavy strings) - and it just didn't cut it for me and I sold it after it had accumulated some dust. But it was a good system.

J

"So I have this beautiful Godin Multiac guitar with a built-in midi pickup"

Yes I have one too, but I also have a beautiful Axon AX 50 to go with it. You need this.
It works great and for a Guitarist who wants to compete in the Midi world this is the best
unit to get. One day I might actually use some of the patches that came with it.

RealDave