geting a piano tone
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crozzfire
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You need this!
Roland GR-20
http://www.bosscorp.co.jp/PRODUCTS/EN/GR-20/index.html
OR
Roland GR-33
http://www.bosscorp.co.jp/PRODUCTS/EN/GR-33/index.html
:mrgreen:
Roland GR-20
http://www.bosscorp.co.jp/PRODUCTS/EN/GR-20/index.html
OR
Roland GR-33
http://www.bosscorp.co.jp/PRODUCTS/EN/GR-33/index.html
:mrgreen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNUHsbdUdx8
dam.. its super cool..
dam.. its super cool..
Whitestrat
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Yeah... awesome product. a little laggy, and you do need to route a hole in the body or pickguard to install the GK pickup...
adamqlw
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Actually the GK3 pickup can be mounted on the guitar in a non-destrictive manner, so you could do it without having to route anything. Of course, then you have the thing sticking out of your guitar..
Whitestrat
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True, then you'll have tons of wires hanging here and there...
adamqlw
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Actually there are only 3 wires involved. The magnetic hexaphonic pickup has a single wire that connects to the output unit. You have the option of connectionting your guitar's output back into the unit and having the signal carried across the 13-pin cable. And of course, lastly, you have the 13-pin cable. It looks like this
Not too shabby for a removable system! Of course, it's nowhere nearly as neat as this
On a side note, at one point in time I actually had a luthier route out my then EBMM Luke and install the Graphtech Ghost Hexaphonic system which compatible with the GK series. Used to have a VG-88, which was great fun although *not* pitch to MIDI. Also used to have a GI-20 pitch -> MIDI converter that I ran with a Roland XV2020. It was defintely a head turner but I really didn't like the construction of the 13-pin system. Just felt a little fragile to me... it ended up breaking twice. Although if I had surplus funds, I'd buy a VG-99 in a heartbeat and get back into the whole VG/MIDI thing
Not too shabby for a removable system! Of course, it's nowhere nearly as neat as this
On a side note, at one point in time I actually had a luthier route out my then EBMM Luke and install the Graphtech Ghost Hexaphonic system which compatible with the GK series. Used to have a VG-88, which was great fun although *not* pitch to MIDI. Also used to have a GI-20 pitch -> MIDI converter that I ran with a Roland XV2020. It was defintely a head turner but I really didn't like the construction of the 13-pin system. Just felt a little fragile to me... it ended up breaking twice. Although if I had surplus funds, I'd buy a VG-99 in a heartbeat and get back into the whole VG/MIDI thing
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Whitestrat
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Well, anything sticking out still bugs me... and to me, a guitar should be a guitar...
PatheinRaindropMoe
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its not as expensive like what was written. The gr 20/33, vg-8/88 has been out in the market for more than 5 years or even longer, depending on which product. The price is still not cheap, but not as high also as written.
anyway, putting the price aside, the triggering of the piano tone from guitar is really not suitable. i have the gr 33 for couple of years. The piano patch is one of my LEAST favourite. All the nuances of piano characteristic is sorta lost when you wanna trigger the piano notes by fretting guitar and plucking notes. Either the piano sound will sound too abrupt and harsh or half fckued sounding when the midi pickup aint picking up enough of the strings vibration to trigger off the piano sound from the module.
For piano sound, it aint working well imho. But other patches like saxaphone, flute, keyboard synth sound, sound effect and trumpet etc, still can fake way thru and better sounding than most of the piano patches in there
anyway, putting the price aside, the triggering of the piano tone from guitar is really not suitable. i have the gr 33 for couple of years. The piano patch is one of my LEAST favourite. All the nuances of piano characteristic is sorta lost when you wanna trigger the piano notes by fretting guitar and plucking notes. Either the piano sound will sound too abrupt and harsh or half fckued sounding when the midi pickup aint picking up enough of the strings vibration to trigger off the piano sound from the module.
For piano sound, it aint working well imho. But other patches like saxaphone, flute, keyboard synth sound, sound effect and trumpet etc, still can fake way thru and better sounding than most of the piano patches in there
PatheinRaindropMoe
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to be fair the guitar synth do has its own interesting features. But its just that the piano part just aint suitable.
Crawldaddy
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Hmm.
I have tried the EHX POG and I was amazed that I could get a sound similar to a church organ coming out of it! Then again if you look closely at how a piano works and how the POG serves to modify/modulate one's sound it's not too hard to imagine.
I have tried the EHX POG and I was amazed that I could get a sound similar to a church organ coming out of it! Then again if you look closely at how a piano works and how the POG serves to modify/modulate one's sound it's not too hard to imagine.
I still prefer my BOSS ps-5 tho.Similar threads
