Re: Re: after the GeoShred thread iOS app, "MIDI Guitar", iOS vi

Hi Richard.

I may well misinterpret your words and think that you mix things up. :-)

I would clearly separate the pitch-to-MIDI conversion and the number of output channels.

The conversion would benefit from conversion of the sounds of individual strings. If that should be impossible, like when using a single jack in, then the strings should be picked up as characteristically as possible, therefore by avoiding overtones (through selection of the element an by setting the knobs to treble).
My reasoning may be wrong, for my Godin uses the "rich" piezo pick-up for its pre-MIDI output.

Using one or six MIDI channels for output each have their own use. Think of pitch-bend. Using one channel may be close to using a tremolo handle or playing bottleneck. Using six channels may be handy for creating bluesy intervals - but it occupies six from sixteen channels.

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Chris

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On 31 Jan 2017, 16:42 +0100, richard brown [email protected] [midiguitar] <[email protected]>, wrote:
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> I would give Jam Origin another go, but how can it layer for example, without say a Yamaha or similar rack interface that takes one channel in and derives parallel high and low note ranges and assigns them to other midi channels??
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> Like the Kieth McMillen guitar, one midi channel out sounds like the 'old days' to me, as I suppose would Fishman triple-play, if it only sent on one channel.
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> I recognise that deriving useable midi info from a single jack lead is a great accomplishment, but IMO a useable and inspiring midi guitar system is much more than that, and it's not just a tool to derive readable scores and a single voice from..
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> bg (Bulgaria)
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