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Re: OT? Driving a VG unit and guitar synth



Have you used it to split the signal from one 13 pin guitar or do you
just use it as the breakout?

Kevin

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:08 PM,  <phaslem@wightman.ca> wrote:
> 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
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> 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
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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>>
>> --
>> Till now you seriously considered yourself to be the body and to have a
>> form. That is the primal ignorance which is the root cause of all 
>trouble.
>>
>> - Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950)
>>
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-- 
Till now you seriously considered yourself to be the body and to have a
form. That is the primal ignorance which is the root cause of all trouble.

- Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950)

Sound and Vision:  http://www.minds-eye.org
Video http://www.vimeo.com/user877640/videos