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Yes, I have seen some demonstation videos of the Triple Play, used with a guitar. Seems interesting. Has very fast triggering and wireless. Does it ship yet? I have not been able to find any price information. Per On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Philip Conway <Philip.Conway@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > The company Fishman supposedly have a new wireless midi guitar device > coming > out this year called the Triple Play. It's designed by the same guy that > designed the Axon boxes. > > http://www.bestofnamm.com/products/view/tripleplay > > Apparently it's physically impossible to decrease the latency the Axons > have > simply because the string has to be vibrating for a certain period of > time > in order to produce enough information to determine pitch. However, the > tracking is supposed to be better. And it's tiny! > > > > Philip. > > --On 10 June 2012 15:52 +0200 Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 3:15 PM, andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Per, >>> afaik Midi pitch bend is essential for really good tracking. >>> Sometimes the note picked is out by a semitone, and an immediate Pitch >>> bend compensates. >>> ..well it happens with the fast tracking Axon like that. >> >> >> >> The Axon is know for the fastest tracking. But I still chose to go >> with synths that do not follow the guitar too close (i.e. pitch bend >> turned off, synth working in chromatic mode). Not only for the >> esthetic reason already mentioned (rather using synths *behind* string >> sound to complement and enhance string sound) but also because I like >> to apply an arpeggiator between the guitar/stick generated MIDI and >> the synth. And I don't like the rapid arpeggio to follow pitch-bend in >> a melody played over the arpeggio. >> >> Maybe this approach comes from beginning with "MIDI guitar" in the >> late eighties when the Casio MG502 was introduced (still got mine!!!) >> and the speed of triggering was very, very slow back then so only the >> put-synth-pad-behind-string-sound application made any musical sense. >> >> I can say that from my recent experience with the GR-55 I actually >> enjoy playing GR-55 synth sounds that follow pitchbend and use it more >> to blend with the string sound into a unified sound (rather than as a >> complement). But for me it never reaches the same playability and >> expressiveness as the pure string sound (or as if using an EWI as the >> hands-on instrument). >> >> Greetings from Sweden >> >> Per Boysen >> www.perboysen.com >> http://www.youtube.com/perboysen >> > > > >