RE: [OT] Violin midi (was average age of the looping community)

["Alan Kroeger" <alan@akroeger.com>]

Yes Stuart I am afraid you are right, I am actually toying with making
my own piezo pickup and running into the 
GK-2a monophonic just to try and find a way to improve the situation. If
it worked (midi violin) there would be just an incredible amount of
sonic possibilities including looping that would become available to the
Violin player, but alas it just doesn't work yet even in the overpriced
Zeta product.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Wyatt (Solo String Project)
[mailto:loopers-delight@solostring.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 3:09 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: [OT] Violin midi (was average age of the looping community)



On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 08:50 PM, Alan Kroeger wrote:

> if I could just get a MIDI
> Violin Pickup that worked, oh well maybe in a few more years. ;-)

You'll have a long wait I think :(
The problem with the violin is that it produces one of the largest 
range of sounds/harmonics, and midi pickups (read Zeta) as you have 
probably found out just do not work. Latency, ghost notes, no dynamics 
etc. etc. I tried one once, and was not impressed.

Jon Rose has a custom midi pickup that he has made for his Hyperstring 
project (http://www.jonroseweb.com/f_projects_hyperstring.html) whereby 
he uses a midi pickup on the violin to detect the tone, a motion 
detector on the bow and a pedal to control the volume. I've never seen 
him play, but I think that his ideas are certainly a step in the right 
direction.

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Stuart Wyatt (Solo String Project) - http://SoloString.com