RE: semi OT - Guitar Synths

[paul <phaslem@wightman.ca>]

Hi Gareth, 

This breakout box is quite interesting, did you buy a complete box or did
you build it from a kit? How much do they cost?

thanks,

Paul Haslem, 
Ontario, Canada
www.dulcify.ca








At 03:32 PM 6/17/2010, you wrote:
> Hi Bill, 
> The hexpander is the ghost system here:
>
> http://www.graphtech.com/products.html?SubCategoryID=15
> I'm actually splitting the signal from it using a breakout box that I
> modified
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBOQxG885vc
>       This allows me to send each string into a
> different input of my soundcard for hex processing while getting midi
> output. I'm getting into Berlin School type sequencing from the guitar
> with this latest piece. The accuracy of this particular style dictates
> that I use input quantisation, (even without allowing for midi delay, my
> playing is not accurate enough). 
>  
>       Energy Xt is a bit of a strange one.
> Version 1 has a really nice, modular live mode where you can trigger
> sequences, audio clips, midi and notes envelopes either from which notes
> you play, (so you could do a run up and when you hit a high G for
> instance an event happens), or fire events from your pedal controller,
> (or both). Curiously the developer of Energy XT has moved on to version 2
> which doesn't have this feature at all... so I don't use the latest
> version. I'm running this in Audiomulch as a plugin. It has great
> potential but many many many, (I won't ever say too many)
> possibilities.
>  
> On the latency side, I've been spending so much time with this system
> recently that my playing compensates for it rather like you do when using
> the volume control to swell guitar notes in, (though the time delay is a
> lot less). When you think about it, your brain starts to move your hand
> before you want to hear the notes on a guitar, drums etc. It's just a
> process that needs to be learned - the rewards are well worth time spent
> on it for me.
>  
> Sorry to be so long winded, must e the excitement  - whew!
>  
> G
>
>