Re: Sonuus Guitar to Midi

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Mech<mech@m3ch.net> wrote:
> I've had guitar- and wind-controllers since the '80s.  And in terms of
> expressiveness, I really prefer both of them over traditional
> keyboard-controllers.  There's an organic quality that's a lot more
> difficult to get if you're dealing with an interface that's not much more
> than a glorified set of buttons.


I too have owned a MIDI guitar since the 80's and an AKAI EWI4000s
since 2006. Needless to say I prefer the EWI for all synth playing.
Never use the MIDI guitar, except as electric guitar. When patching
around with MIDI arpeggiator stuff I rarely bother to turn on a piano
style keyboard because it is faster to simply play the notes on the
computer keyboard :-))

With Logic 9 you can pop in a mic and whistle a melody and have it
converted to MIDI - or push a button to have it chopped up into audio
samples and transformed into a sampler instrument patch plus a MIDI
sequence to drive sound. I generally think all kinds of cheating
inspires great music!

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
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