Gtak - MIDI Guitar to Kontakt made easy.

Overview of Gtak (from Even Harmonic) - making it easy to use an Guitar to MIDI converter with Kontakt3. Guitar to MIDI converter here is a Terratec Axon AX100 mkII, but any of the other Axons, or Roland models (GR-20, GI-20, VG-99 etc.) or similar will work just as well.
Kontakt3 from Native Instruments is one of the largest (33GB), most versatile (1000+ instruments) and most open-ended software instruments available today.
There is a higher quality (you can actually see the screenshots) version of this video on the evenharmonic website.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Guitar
• MIDI
• Axon
• Roland
• GR
• GI
• VG
• Gtak
• Kontakt

[jscucc]

how do all the kontakt synths pads and arpeggiators sound?

[evenharmonicvideos]

@jscucc There are quite a variety of pads, sometimes they sound too much, but if you go to the Instrument panel there are a bunch of friendly controls you can tweak to get the sound you want. The arpeggiator patches I don't like so much, but you can actually add Kontakt's arpeggiator script to any instrument you want, so the possibilities are endless (there's also a sequencer script if the arpeggiator isn't flexible enough for you).

[mariliap]

You said that the market of "software instruments+MIDI guitars" are still small, and that's why this combination still doesn't work well together. Could you make a video playing a song using all that you taught in your previous videos? I mean using integration between midi guitars and VSTs... Maybe by doing this you could make people more interested, and so increase this market... we all could win with more products and innovations being released

[evenharmonicvideos]

@mariliap There are load of songs out there by much better guitarists than me out there (not specifically using gtak, but using MIDI guitars). Google for "Roland guitar synth challenge" for some (sorry, youtube won't let me post the link).

[guitarharpsichord]

was surprised to see that midi guitar is still such a challenge ...after 25years of this stuff I would have thot it would be all sorted out..great guitar you have there, LP Gold Top?..thanks for the wealth of info.

[evenharmonicvideos]

@guitarharpsichord  yeah, some things have been sorted out, but most software instruments still don't play nice with MIDI guitar, it seems it's too small a market for the people who write them to be worried about.

[hto1971]

lol got a new one for you call (you rock guitar midi controller ) and can play more than one string at a time

[bergweg]

do you get a lot of ghost notes with the Axon?

[universetechnique]

Keep up the good work.Pls put up more video bro.Your so cool.Thanks.Remember I was here.Thai 6:11PM 7/16/2011

[kickflipindy78]

wow , your so enthusiastic.

[WaterRabbit]

This is a awesome piece of software, if I owned one of the big music companies, like Roland I would buy the rights to this and incorporate it into some hardware and promote the heck out of it. Great videos too, I can't imagine who gave this a thumbs down? Great stuff - Rock On.