Midi guitar equipment??

[Mcfontio]

Thefyn, you tried the GR 55 then? It doesn't do hammer ons or pull offs very well but I don't find it to have much latency. Or at least enough to throw off myself or anyone else in the band. I've been working on being very affirmative with the notes picked.

 

{censored} man, I would get a keyboard before paying 200$ on what looks to be a total piece of {censored}.. But yea, gotta do what you gotta do.

[aliensporebomb]

 

Thefyn, you tried the GR 55 then? It doesn't do hammer ons or pull offs very well but I don't find it to have much latency. Or at least enough to throw off myself or anyone else in the band. I've been working on being very affirmative with the notes picked. {censored} man, I would get a keyboard before paying 200$ on what looks to be a total piece of {censored}.. But yea, gotta do what you gotta do.

 

 

Regarding tracking: I don't know if the GR-55 has this but the VG-99 has a series of settings for "tracking feel", "no dyna" and "strum".

 

In other words, on the VG you can increase the feel setting so that as setting number is increased it becomes easier to produce sounds even with weaker picking (such as hammer-on and pull-off). I'd investigate if the GR has that. The "No Dyna" setting plays everything at a fixed volume and the "Strum" suppresses the output from weaker picking which prevents undesired sounds when playing rhythm or due to incidental contact with strings from incorrect picking...."

 

So I'd try the Guitar-to-midi on a VG-99 with the Play Feel setting at 4, no Dyna set to off and strum set to off as well and see how that works for you. This way you can have a system that has a wide range of settings for different players with different techniques and still can make guitar-to-midi work for them.

[germanicus2112]

Regarding tracking: I don't know if the GR-55 has this but the VG-99 has a series of settings for "tracking feel", "no dyna" and "strum". In other words, on the VG you can increase the feel setting so that as setting number is increased it becomes easier to produce sounds even with weaker picking (such as hammer-on and pull-off). I'd investigate if the GR has that. The "No Dyna" setting plays everything at a fixed volume and the "Strum" suppresses the output from weaker picking which prevents undesired sounds when playing rhythm or due to incidental contact with strings from incorrect picking...." So I'd try the Guitar-to-midi on a VG-99 with the Play Feel setting at 4, no Dyna set to off and strum set to off as well and see how that works for you. This way you can have a system that has a wide range of settings for different players with different techniques and still can make guitar-to-midi work for them.

 

 

(ASB I know you know this but for the benefit of others....)

 

Roland included several parameters that makes customizing the gr55 for the player.

Like the vg99 you have individual string sensitivities settings, parameters for the distance of each string-bridge to hex pickup, and scale length of the guitar.

 

In addition to that the gr55 offers Velocity controls for each GK pickup, and you can store different setups for different playstyles. The Velocity controls include Velocity Dynamics, Play Feel (these are similar to what ASB was reffering to, except you have settings 1 to 5), and Low Velocity Cut (this is very useful one for 'cleaning up' little extra blips you get from sloppy playing). The combination of these 3 parameters makes it very easy to dial in your own playing style and how you want the PCM tones to scale in relation to your picking velocity. You also have Nuance Dynamics and Nuance Trim. Ive had a very easy time getting my 13 pin guitars set up with it.