On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, zoinky420 wrote:
> 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.
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i'm not talking about midi-guitars, as such... i mean more generally
guitar things that use midi; switchers, effects, etc. there have been some
great midi controlled switches that have been exclusively marketed to
guitarists (who, FTMP, don't even want to understand MIDI and stop
listening as soon as they hear "MIDI") but they would also be of great
value to a lot of people doing synth or studio work. i always asked the
guys in the guitar shops why there isn't more stuff like that, and why so
many different companies seem to come out with first generation stuff and
then drop the line... the only good answers i ever got, and this from the
guitar guys in the guitar shops, was that 99% of guitarists don't know
about hi-tech, and don't wanna know about it.
combined with the deservedly bad reputation that was earned by the early
"pitch tracker" guitar->midi converters, most guitar players have an
instinctive aversion to ∗anything∗ MIDI.
i'm also sure that the people on this list who make music with strings
tied to a piece of wood are among the 1% who do not fear the technology.
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