Pleng
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Re: Gah!
the GK Pickup must be one of the least understood things around! The carries 6 individual sound channels (one for each string) down a 13-pin cable. It is often used for pitch-to-midi conversion but that is not it's only use. It is perfectly feasible to make a breakout box which features 6 individual channels. As I had (incorrectly) presumed that the iAxe was a VariAXE-alike I had also assumed it used some kind of split-pickup in order to generate 12-string and alternate tunings. Hence advising to investigate the GK pickup as it's the only system I know of which *could* be used without custom drivers (though you would of course need a 6-channel sound card to go with it, and appropriate drivers). As the I-Axe is essentially a guitar with a built in usb soundcard, the advice I gave was invalid. But the GK is NOT just for midi-guitar!
sold said:Pleng said:Not sure exactly what the i-Axe is but if you want to fit a system to your own guitar then you might want to take a look a the Roland GK3 split pickup. It adds a 13-pin output to your guitar which sends the signal from e...<snip>...-channel USB soundcard which works with Pandora. THEN you'd need to write the amp and pedal modeling. It for sure won't be an easy task, or cheap to accomplish! Even when you've spent all that money on equipment and time developing it, you are going to have something that just doesn't do the job as well as the system you are trying to emulate.
Firstly, the iAxe is NOT a midi instrument, it is basically a cheap guitar with a usb audio interface built in. For a simple and imo better alternative that can be used with any guitar or bass, Google stealthplug. There are also other guitar to usb solutions.
Secondly, if you wanna use a gk3 split pickup, you need either a gi20 or a similar midi converter for guitar to convert the pitch to midi. AFAIK the roland GI20 connects to hardware synths or to pc via usb to control software synths so you don't even need a pc midi interface. It should even work with pandora to some extent as long as pandora can accept midi signals from usb, and if there are software synths available to run on it.
the GK Pickup must be one of the least understood things around! The carries 6 individual sound channels (one for each string) down a 13-pin cable. It is often used for pitch-to-midi conversion but that is not it's only use. It is perfectly feasible to make a breakout box which features 6 individual channels. As I had (incorrectly) presumed that the iAxe was a VariAXE-alike I had also assumed it used some kind of split-pickup in order to generate 12-string and alternate tunings. Hence advising to investigate the GK pickup as it's the only system I know of which *could* be used without custom drivers (though you would of course need a 6-channel sound card to go with it, and appropriate drivers). As the I-Axe is essentially a guitar with a built in usb soundcard, the advice I gave was invalid. But the GK is NOT just for midi-guitar!