Re: best desktop guitar midi interface?

["Kris Hartung" <krispen.hartung@gmail.com>]

I want a GR300.  :)



-----Original Message----- 
From: Per Boysen
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 12:56 PM
To: Loopers-Delight
Subject: re: best desktop guitar midi interface?

I know about no guitar MIDI interface that doesn't lag if playing
synths. But I've heard many say like Krispen, that the Axon is
fastest. But I guess those who still own a used Axon hold on to them
and they might be hard to find. Regarding McLaughlin I assume that he
has learned to play with latency from many concerts on large stages
(where the speaker may have to be far from his playing position - some
five meters distance and you have the same latency as MIDI conversion,
except the annoying fact that MIDI triggering goes slower the lower
notes you play. When I had a MIDI guitar in the eighties I used to
play bass lines high up on the two thinnest strings and set the
guitar's built-in MIDI interface to transpose MIDI Notes down by three
octaves before sending them out to the synth = much faster triggering
that way).

A way to have no latency is to not use MIDI but play synths directly
with Roland's GR-55 system. The GR-55 can also be used as a MIDI
interface; just plug a USB cable from it into a computer. But the MIDI
stuff will play a bit after the synth notes.

There's a new Guitar MIDI pickup and wireless MIDI interface soon to
ship; the Fishman TriplePlay. A YouTube video from NAMM here:
http://youtu.be/_nKhlmJ4EeI

If you're fine with monophonic playing you also have the little Sonus
i2M, review here:
http://www.guitarmoderne.com/gear-2/gear-review-sonuus-i2m-synth-musicport

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen


On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Luis Angulo <louie.angulo@yahoo.com> 
wrote:
> Hi gang,im thinking of buying a guitar midi interface to trigger plugins 
> and
> software synths but i thought i check with you before i buy
> which one would you recomend or is the best tracking one out here?
> ive been considering a used GI-20
> thanx!
>
> http://www.myspace.com/luisangulocom