4 Midi Guitar Ways

[johnny_be_goode]

I used to thought that there are 2 ways for midi guitar

1. Magnetic GK-2/3 Pickups that you have to clamp on your guitar
Pros: using your fav guitar
Cons: don't like to clamp

2. Piezo (RMC) - Offered by some guitar manufacturer like Ibanez, Brian Moore..etc
Pros: built in
Cons: buy another guitar for midi purpose
Could customise RMC Poly drive onto piezo bridge, but the only piezo floating bridge available is from Ibanez double edge pro.


I would like the combination of both, built into fav guitar.


After some research, I discovered 2 more ways

3. Sound Garage Midi Pickup
Pros: onto your guitar
Cons: sacrifice a pickup space
http://www.ny.airnet.ne.jp/sound-g/

4. TSC midi guitar Mod
Pros: onto your guitar
http://www.proix.com/product/gk_cost/index.html
http://www.proix.com/gui_syn.html (check out the gallery, you won't regret!)
Like the Fender GK ready model.
Mod for your fav guitar to be midi compatible

 

[gsonique]

Mindless Infenite Diabolic Infection..... 8)

 

[ShredCow]

Do all 4 systems track equally well?

 

[johnny_be_goode]

not sure abt the sound garage pickup,
from what I read abt piezo(RMC) and magnetic(GK-2/3) in other forum, there aren't not much different.

also dependent on the interface...

I'm actually looking into GR-20...

fav this TSC Mod, they are in Osaka, Japan.

 

[ShredCow]

I see..

Well, if you are going to go midi, perhaps, you can contact Randolf, he uses the Roland GK or something, an older version.

Apparently you can't have too low an action or the trackign wouldn't be good, etc etc. So best to find out all these quirks in addition to the system's tracking capability.

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

plus this one also

http://www.graphtech.com/prodghost.htm

the gk pickup actually track pretty good imho. If look is as important as cool, then pehaps must go the other way. The tracking on the gk 2A which iam using, some patches on the guitar synth are more prone to weird ghost note that arise from sloppy fretting technique. But close to 99%, it track almost instantly. Others mileage might vary thou.

imho