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korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Atom Smasher <atom@...> wrote:
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>
> well, i wish there were more guys & gals like ya'll. i've seen so
much
> good hi-tech MIDIfied guitar stuff that never got any good follow up
> because most guitarists fear the technology, and most synthesizerists
> don't bother looking at guitar toys. i guess i can also blame the
> guitar-centric companies that made some of those products, and
completely
> failed to market them beyond guitarists.
>
>
C'mon this isn't 1979 and we're considering burning our Boston albums
because the keyboards make it too much like disco. The musical-genius
playing all the instruments on his album isn't exactly an unusual
senario anymore. In fact, that could be why midi-guitar never took
off. Doing midi on guitar is just silly. You have to play so slow and
deliberately for any of them to track accurately that you'd end up
looking like the worst guitarist around even if you're not. The only
useful application of midi for guitarists is program-change footpedals
to cycle through amp-modelling/effects patches. Those pedals can also
be useful for players of other instruments and usually when the
instrumentalist reaches the limitations requiring it, he finds out
about it. So I'm not so sure there is a significant marketing problem.