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Re: drums with a guitar(need MIDI?)
playing drums with a guitar.
The electric guitar doesn't allow all those
drum sounds that Rick gets from an acoustic guitar.
I found it possible to program FX patches which, with
use of suitable electric guitar techniques, allow various
drum sounds to be approximated.
bass drum: envelope controlled lo-pass filter. resonance quite high
and frequency around 100hz
.....thump muffled strings over bridge p/u
snare: vocoder, where noise is modulated by guitar and release
time is quite long.
.....damp strings and strum
hi-hat: ring mod with envelope control on the carrier freq
.....damp strings and tap lightly over p/u
and so on, there's a lot of variation to be had by using different
techniques with theses FX patches, mostly useable percussive type
sounds, although less conventional.
takes a bit of practise to get the sounds nice and clean.
Second possibility is holding toy "drum machines" against the guitar
p/u. As the magnetic field of the toy's speaker is directly activating
the gtr p/u the sound can be a bit better than the acoustic sound
of the toy.
...just waiting for the small "drum machine" with usable
sounds to become available in the local discount stores.
To go the MIDI way the Yamaha G50 looks like one of
the better options. I wouldn't usually recommend Yamaha
for anything musical, but in this case they bought the design
from a company called Axon (units available?).
The tracking is based on a neural net system, and seems
pretty good.
Allows you to send a different MIDI channel with each string.
...and a mono input for MIDI convertion of any signal without the
split p/u.
I've tried one of the newer Roland guitar synths,
(whichever is the current production model, I don't remember the
name )
and while the tracking
is OK it seemed to be designed for use with mainly the onboard
sounds. Certainly couldn't assign different strings to different channels.
I reckon that Roland/Boss gear generally doesn't have high
sound quality, ( and personally I find the preset patches
to be useless).
andy butler