Midi thoughts?

[Hurricane Ramon]

Originally Posted by FrankHudson

I'll agree with HR that bare finger players have an advantage when playing MIDI guitar (as they do when playing slide) as right hand finger muting can be a big help.

However, flat-pickers like myself can cope too. I have to mute with the left hand and with my right hand palm, even when I'm not driving a MIDI pickup. I will use a scrunchy or designed guitar mute near the nut when playing passages without open notes. I also favor coated Elixir electric strings to reduce finger noise.

For a sloppy player like myself, using a MIDI pickup is a teaching device as well as compositional tool.

Totally agree there are flat pick player that rip on midi guitar , a good example is Pat Metheny
he's a hybrid type and also can be seen using a pick too . :



Point I tried to make you gotta play clean - guys into heavy distortion tones have the most problems
from what I have seen since I began in the late 1990's .

EZ :

HR

[Hurricane Ramon]

By far this forum is one of the best about midi guitar and other high tech guitar stuff :

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/

EZ :

HR

[dreamsinger]

I've been fascinated with the idea ever since Joni Mitchell used a MIDI-fied Parker Fly on tour so she didn't have to have techs hand her a different guitar every other song. I didn't like the visuals of it and the Godin didn't look enough like an acoustic guitar nor was the neck wide enough. I had one built that for now will run through a Roland VG8. I expect to be able to change tunings, capo settings and instrument types (dobro, high strung, capo settings etc) at the tap of a pedal. It should make for a more even flowing set and a lot more versatility. Here it is not wired yet. GraphTech Ghost Hexpander/Piezo system.