Re: semi OT - Guitar Synths

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

William Walker wrote:
> A friend of mine has the Sonuus G2M monophonic unit. According to him 
> its not exactly plug in and play as it requires some dialing in of 
> parameters and fine tuning of the response for whatever soft synth you 
> wind up using. 

Actually it's very simple.
All you have to do is make sure the midi pitch bend
range on the synth is 2 semitones.



Related to that, if you bend more than a tone (even if it's
just vibrato on a bent up note) then the G2 retriggers.

The Sonuus tracks really well, with hardly any warbling
on sustained tones.
...downside is that it doesn't track so fast.

If you don't have a hex p/u, then the only other option I know
is the Yamaha G50(licensed from Axon), ...if you can find one.

For some folks the there's a downside that with the mono midi detection
you need to think about damping the other strings.

The G2's a very nice product overall. Though I couldn't say for
certain that it wouldn't be a better idea to just get a small keyboard ;-)

My own ambitions towards midi guitar kind of faded when 
I actually got my hands on the Roland sound module that I bought.
(JV1010 with Asian sound card).
Basically
1) the sound quality was noticeably poorer than their demo disk cd.
2) while the demo disk appeared to showcase a good range of sounds,
   a fair proportion were only present in phrase samples, and thus
   not actually playable.
3) lack of documentation for the individual samples
...and then I didn't really like the awkwardness of the GK-2 p/u
on the guitar.


andy butler