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Money is too tight even for a used one, I'm afraid.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 08:55 David Bradley [email protected]
[midiguitar] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Tripple Play and find a used one on ebay if money is tight.
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> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:27 AM, [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:
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>> - Jam Origin
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>> - MidiMorphisis
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>> - iON All Star Guitar
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Dave
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