Re: Re: Fishman TriplePlay Wireless Guitar MIDI Controller Versus??

Thank you all for the comments. I mean the device is usable. When you build your homestudio, you brought in the environment a thing here, a mic there, a new monitors, some pickup for the acoustic guitar, another for the classicc one, you have to buy a lead for MIDI, a cable for USB, another USB for different port, USB3 lead, XLRs of all sorts, new synth,keyboard etc etc and etc. Never ending upgrade for your music/recording Studio. So to get an FTP to plug a spare guitar or maybe even mandolin, violin...could be handy at the particular moment. I wrote to Microsoft once about what's going with XP in comparison to Stradivari violin which is still a valid investment and playable music instrument...lol.Laptop or tablet is todays PC, it is usefull too.I just don't know if from Stomp Box on the floor you go wireless or with MIDI or USB cable to the lapy or hardware synth.5ms = nice! very little latency. Despite why jazz drummers allways use acoustic snare if no other drums and pads in the configuration left are going to be electric or Digital. Cos there's NO latency! Down Beat wrote years ago that professional musicians/drummers can notice 3ms latency or variations in rythm.I play classiccal stuff as well like J.S.Bach, N.Paganini, F.Sor,...no need for MIDI at all. But for some new approach, for the composition, for to analyse the particular solo or lead it's usefull!! Not to mention DJing, sampling, jamming...Have fine playing music




     (computer electronic musician (on a hardship))++... 

     On Thursday, February 12, 2015 5:31 PM, "JAMES HARRISON [email protected] [midiguitar]" <[email protected]> wrote:
   
 

     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
> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20Fishman%20TriplePlay%20Wireless%20Guitar%20MIDI%20Controller%20Versus%3F%3F>
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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 
> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20Fishman%20TriplePlay%20Wireless%20Guitar%20MIDI%20Controller%20Versus%3F%3F>

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