Midi Guitar - "Organic"

This is a short piece I composed and played live on my midi guitar.

You might notice at the beginning and end I use monophonic and polyphonic patches simultaneously; by carefully choosing the order of the notes the melody creates the chord underneath itself while sounding somewhat independent from it.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• guitar
• midi
• organ
• electronic
• electric
• korg
• micro
• microx
• pie
• panda
• midiaxe

[ninjaduke7]

Nice, I've got a VG-99 with Guitar-2-Midi and PRS and GK-3 input. I hooked it up to my pc.. But it doesn't seem to pick up every note and chords don't sound right.. How are you getting it perfect realtime? What are you using?

[sixpiepanda]

Hey, most of the lag in your system is probably happening in your computer. Try sending the VG-99 midi output straight to a keyboard with midi in. That will give you a good idea of how fast your system actually is. GK-3 pickups are magnetic, so the signal they receive is a little weaker than the RMC piezo bridge in my guitar. That's probably the source of your lost notes. Try playing very precisely with your fretting hand, too.

[sleestack]

Are you using a hold pedal for those long sustained notes?

[sixpiepanda]

Not in this video, although I can implement both hold and sostenuto. You can see my first finger and thumb holding the pedal tones toward the beginning.

[rsibassist]

this sounds like something that muse would use....oh my have a created a rhyme?

[midiguitar]

@ninjaduke7 Avoid the lowest octave on your guitar when you use the midi of VG-99 because it is too laggy. It is alway better to play on higher positions and eventually transpose the midi down, in the synth.

[nyos49]

You nailed it, I was just trying to think of what this went to

[VentoVR6]

nice song

[sixpiepanda]

My guitar is a Brian Moore with the midiaxe system, but I don't think you can get them anymore. Best bet, IMO, is a piezo 13 pin system (Brian Moore, Godin, RMC pickup systems), run into an AXON midi converter. See if you can find a store with a piezo 13 pin Godin guitar, and if they will let you bring in your VG-99 to try it. If the piezo system in the Godin still lags, it's probably the VG-99s fault.

[ninjaduke7]

I did the keyboard thing before but it seems like everything external midi lags a little to where you cannot play very fast and wrong/late notes pop up. I dunno.. Maybe i've got it set up wrong or maybe I should get a second guitar with the pitch to midi build in for midi guitar stuff.. Where did you get your pitch to midi guitar, I have a fender strat can I just replace one of the pickups??

[Tacadoband]

really like your song