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Re: OT? Driving a VG unit and guitar synth



That is the breakout box that I bought last year. It works great to  
split up the strings and process them individualy but for some reason  
doesn't seem to be compatable with the roland us-20. I get the signal  
through the us-20 but it continues no mater what pedal I press.

Paul Haslem
Ontario, Canada
www.dulcify.ca







Quoting Kevin Cheli-Colando <billowhead@gmail.com>:

> Another option I've discovered (someone here pointed me to this a
> while ago I think)
>
> http://billbax.110mb.com/
>
> Anyone have an experience with these (horrible website btw).
>
> Kevin
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:14 AM, paul <phaslem@wightman.ca> wrote:
>> I have a US-20 and presently drive an Axon AX-50 and a WP-20. It works
>> great, lets you run one or the other or both. I paid $250.00 for it but 
>in
>> the long run it's been worth it because it works and it lets me do what 
>I
>> wanted to do. The other device from Germany that I think you're 
>referring to
>> is a SW41 by Klaus Schock (
>> http://www.klausschock.com/Products/products.html ) It's designed to 
>use up
>> to 4 different guitars going out to one 13 pin device. He doesn't make 
>them
>> on a regular basis, I ordered one last year about this time and only 
>just
>> now recieved it, but haven't had time to play with it yet. Oh, and the 
>price
>> of that is 215.00 eur.
>>
>> Recently I've been experimenting with a breakout box and running each 
>string
>> into bidule and processing them individually. Got some interesting 
>results,
>> but boy was that a drain on the cpu! Of course if you have enough stomp
>> boxes you could do the same thing with hardware and then bring each 
>signal
>> into a mixer. I tried to use the US-20 with the breakout box but for 
>some
>> reason the switching doesn't work and you always have the signal from 
>the
>> BOB on but I could turn the synth side on and off.
>>
>> Paul Haslem
>> Ontario, Canada
>> www.dulcify.ca
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> At 07:59 AM 1/20/2011, you wrote:
>>>
>>> On 1/20/11 4:01 PM, "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Can't you simply put ą MIDI cable fr.o.m. The VG into the utger 
>device?
>>>
>>> Won't work, in most cases.  The VG, of course, requires an actual audio
>>> signal to process via its COSM algorithm, so it's obvious why that's a
>>> non-starter through MIDI.  However, most (all?) other guitar synths 
>will
>>> also require a guitar-type controller to trigger the synth engine; they
>>> cannot be played via normal MIDI note input.  So the architecture 
>needs to
>>> be a "split and run in parallel" setup, rather than a "chain one device
>>> after another" effect run.
>>>
>>> Now if the question were concerning the VG in tandem with a generic 
>MIDI
>>> synth module, your solution would work just fine.  I've done the same 
>with
>>> my VG-99 in conjunction with a JV-1080.  Unfortunately in this case, 
>both
>>> devices need to be driven from a GK-style pickup controller.
>>>
>>> Unless I overlooked something in the original problem description.
>>> Kevin...?
>>>
>>> (P.S. There's another footswitch besides the GKP-4 or US-20 that will
>>> allow
>>> you to take two GK inputs and route them to three different devices. 
> It's
>>> a
>>> custom job from a different company out of, I think, Germany.  It's
>>> expensive, but not so much more than having to pay $200 for a US-20. 
> At
>>> least you feel like you're getting something besides ripped off for 
>that
>>> one.)
>>>
>>>        --m.
>>
>>
>
>
>
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