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Interesting and well presented points. One small quibble; at least with
the way I understand your post: All of the processing goes on within
the FTP, not in the pc it's connected to. IMHO.
I recently acquired a Ztar Z6S with pretty much all the options. It's so
different from playing a regular guitar that I don't know if I will ever
be able to realize even a small part of its potential. And I guess the
fact that I'm not really a guitar player doesn't help...
Regards,
James
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> Wed Feb 11, 2015 2:30 am (PST) . Posted by:
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> "richard brown" napravobg
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> 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 inconsiderable money for my AX100 (MK1) only to have it superseded by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
> bg
>
> R
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