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

Thanks for sharing your ideas/suggestions Dave.
I will try the apps you mentioned.
As for the Cardinote Tabophobe, looks like a cool idea, but I doubt you can
fit it on an electric guitar.

Stef

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 04:27 [email protected] [midiguitar] <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> 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.
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>
> 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.
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>
> I tried out:
>
>  - Jam Origin
>
>  - MidiMorphisis
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>  - 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/
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> 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
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