Re: Low budget pitch-to-midi solution for transcribing

Often you get what you pay for when you are looking at free. Not always, but a great of the time. Low budget is also relative to what you are willing to spend.
 

 Initially when money was tighter for me and I was really sure of the reliability of the offerings out there, I went with free. Free had a lot of limitations.
 

 I tried out:
  - Jam Origin
  - MidiMorphisis
  - iON All Star Guitar
 

 Both had their limitations but me thinks due in part to more than one factor. With Jam Origin I did not get great triggering but I have a business Windows PC laptop which is more like a Land Rover (think Defender, Series III, etc.) when it comes to getting things done. They do some pretty impressive things but not at breakneck speed. They are reliable and work hard though. I still don't have a good audio to digital interface for it and my signal path suffered as a result. If I had a gaming PC like my son and a good or better interface, I likely would have had better results.
 

 MidiMorphisis I liked better and it worked better. It worked very well with a microphone on my iPad in my Alesis IO Dock. I think if I had a newer Ipad instead of my gen 3, we could have had better results. Going back to the Land Rover analogy, when dealing with audio and video in real time, available horsepower under the hood really counts.
 

 The iON All Star guitar I found on close out at Bed Bath & Beyond for $40.00. For that price, I felt it couldn't hurt. The novelty of it kept my interest briefly but it had too much lag which I feel was largely a touch screen thing. 
 

 I finally ending up purchasing the You Rock Guitar YRG 1000 with Radius neck. It had very decent response but I realized my playing was sloppy in part due to my normal style and having exceptionally rusty chops. It had been 18 years since I last regularly played (because I was in a busy band). What you remember playing like versus what you are playing like, caught up with me. I need to do some tweaking with it to suit my playing a bit as well as be more precise in my playing again. Both will help.
 

 I bought it in part to force me to be cleaner in my playing, which would have been necessary to use the Fishmann Triple Play as well. A plus was that I could break it down allowing me to take it to work on slow shifts. I work in Public Safety doing 24 hour shifts that normally keep me busy, but sometimes you spend a lot of time waiting for things to happen. Broken down, it would fit in my duty bag. I still haven't taken it to work.
 

 There is a newer device possibly on the horizon. An engineer has started developing a pickup type device fitted under the strings at the bridge, like the Triple play and the Roland system. I'm interested to see where that goes. Affordability seems to be one of his goals.
 https://www.cardinote.com/
 
I am also still interested in the Triple play system and at some point will probably get it.
 

 Shout out to Patrick Madden for his apps. I love them! The FCB1010 is on my shopping list being being to use it on my iPad otr iPhone will be very cool.
 Dave