Hi Jim.
Well, I’m kind of on-and-off-again about MIDI guitar, but after playing a lot of purist (i.e., no loops or fx other than tone stuff) jazz guitar this year, it’s a pleasure to dive back into broader tonal waters. The classic Yamaha FM stuff was pretty revolutionary at the time, but generally I really prefer sample-based “synthesis” as in the GR-33 and many other newer sound modules (when the TX81Z came out, there were some pretty severe computing limits that have been greatly relaxed since then. FM was renowned to a significant extent because it was a great efficient method. Efficiency is less important today, though FM still has its afficianados). Plus, my Godin nylon-string is a very good MIDI controller – I
don’t know if this is true of your Charvel, but this guitar was designed to be a synth controller, and (I infer from performance) it shows up in the quality (strength, fidelity, lack of crossover) of the hex signal sent to the converter, which lets the converter do the best job it can.
Warren
From: Jim Goodin [mailto:jimgoodinmusic@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 2:05 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: New improv posted: Daryl Shawn and Warren Sirota
All very visual Warren and good stuff, which is a strong suit of Daryl's I've come to know from working with him the last year and now in hearing more of you too, love the patches. I too have a dated midi-guitar setup that I have done nothing with in many years. I got it ahead of the technology as I was really interested in the mid-80's. It's the Charvel/Jackson module with a hex pickup on a Japenese/Korean Strat clone. Module wise I've used a TX81Z with it. Every year I briefly seem to get it out and then move on. At NAMM in January I played with the Roland Synth which I found interesting but for the money have been more driven to put the investment in real instruments which I've done plus with Chinapainting as you know we've been more to analog/real-time and minimal efx. That all said your patches/voices on this tapestry of music with Daryl
plus ones I recall you using at the end of Y2K when I joined in with you and Daryl last Oct are/were really cool.
About 20 years ago I was driving back home to Arkansas from New Orleans, was lost it was about mid-night in the bog lands of southern Louisiana, August and hot, it was the old City before the deluge of last year and when it was a very unique southern place. The energy of what you guys created reminded me of that trip.
On 8/13/07, Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com> wrote:
Thanks for the kind words, Jim. Louisiana swamp was not so far from the feeling in the air that day, as it happens. Nice call.
Warren
Warren again it was so kind of you to come to our first live-in-person Chinapainting show in Brooklyn. Thanks so much for making the trek down to Brooklyn.
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