Re: Fishman TriplePlay Wireless Guitar MIDI Controller Versus??

I agree that the support for Axon is non-existently catastrophic, and I 
seriously resent the fact that I like many others paid out not 
inconsiderable money for my AX100 (MK1) only to have it superseded by 
the then 'new  and improved' MK2, and then dropped altogether.
Would it make commercial sense for example for Fender to stop 
manufacturing spares for Strats or Teles or Precisions, (all are over 50 
year-old designs) when so many people own them?  Normally strats etc are 
much more reliable than the Axon efforts of course, but they are still 
supported.  Obviously the Axon customer base was a fraction of Fender, 
but the Axon prices were not cheap. (especially in Europe) and customer 
support should exist IMO or they shouldn't bother making and marketing 
something in the first place.

Are we to believe that ongoing support and spares will magically appear 
for Fishman, and that they are not just 'selling boxes' but some sort of 
customer service with their product?

Then after the Axon demise, FTP goes to a computer-based platform (which 
Szalay should arguably have done long before now ) to get the processing 
speed up.. but which has major disadvantages ( like having to rely on a 
laptop to gig with)  and then it throws in a radio system to help with 
the speed and the 'spaghetti cable syndrome', all of which adds extra 
costs...but for what?


  So, given the bumpy history of 'pitch to glitch', I don't and won't 
own one..
  I own one MK1 Axon AX100 still (and never play it) and a Roland system 
(and again, never play it ) and my Ztars which I play all the time..

In my opinion, I've found the best way to flawlessly trigger midi, and 
I've developed a two-handed tapping style which takes advantage of the 
instrument wonderfully, and allows things that even a keyboard player 
can't do, and certainly not a traditional midi guitarist, and a whole 
new world of expression has opened. (like that of a Midi Stick or a Midi 
Warr-guitar maybe..)

OK, so tapping on Ztar is very different to traditional 'pitch to 
glitch' but I want my musical horizons and the possibilities of 
arrangements to expand, and not to be stuck in something which is not so 
very far removed from my very first Roland GR500, even if FTP is almost 
glitch-free, ( the Roland GR500 wasn't so bad triggering either, but the 
sounds were)

Or alternatively, compare FTP to something which triggers perfectly, 
like my later SynthAxe system, which didn't ever glitch at all, and with 
it, I could bend strings all day.
But,  even after paying out for a full SynthAxe system plus flight 
cases, I could still never leave the 'straight guitar- just midi'd up' 
syndrome.
For me, it seems as if I was mistakenly backing the wrong principle for 
all those years, and that the Ztar key-to-midi concept was always the 
best way to go, for reasons of speed, as well as for the complexity and 
intricacy of what I can now play.

ritchie
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Posted by: richard brown <[email protected]>
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