Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Atom Smasher <atom@...> wrote:
>
> 
> 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.