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Re: OT? Driving a VG unit and guitar synth
Another option I've discovered (someone here pointed me to this a
while ago I think)
http://billbax.110mb.com/
Anyone have an experience with these (horrible website btw).
Kevin
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:14 AM, paul <phaslem@wightman.ca> wrote:
> I have a US-20 and presently drive an Axon AX-50 and a WP-20. It works
> great, lets you run one or the other or both. I paid $250.00 for it but
>in
> the long run it's been worth it because it works and it lets me do what I
> wanted to do. The other device from Germany that I think you're
>referring to
> is a SW41 by Klaus Schock (
> http://www.klausschock.com/Products/products.html ) It's designed to use
>up
> to 4 different guitars going out to one 13 pin device. He doesn't make
>them
> on a regular basis, I ordered one last year about this time and only just
> now recieved it, but haven't had time to play with it yet. Oh, and the
>price
> of that is 215.00 eur.
>
> Recently I've been experimenting with a breakout box and running each
>string
> into bidule and processing them individually. Got some interesting
>results,
> but boy was that a drain on the cpu! Of course if you have enough stomp
> boxes you could do the same thing with hardware and then bring each
>signal
> into a mixer. I tried to use the US-20 with the breakout box but for some
> reason the switching doesn't work and you always have the signal from the
> BOB on but I could turn the synth side on and off.
>
> Paul Haslem
> Ontario, Canada
> www.dulcify.ca
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 07:59 AM 1/20/2011, you wrote:
>>
>> On 1/20/11 4:01 PM, "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Can't you simply put ą MIDI cable fr.o.m. The VG into the utger
>device?
>>
>> Won't work, in most cases. The VG, of course, requires an actual audio
>> signal to process via its COSM algorithm, so it's obvious why that's a
>> non-starter through MIDI. However, most (all?) other guitar synths will
>> also require a guitar-type controller to trigger the synth engine; they
>> cannot be played via normal MIDI note input. So the architecture needs
>to
>> be a "split and run in parallel" setup, rather than a "chain one device
>> after another" effect run.
>>
>> Now if the question were concerning the VG in tandem with a generic MIDI
>> synth module, your solution would work just fine. I've done the same
>with
>> my VG-99 in conjunction with a JV-1080. Unfortunately in this case,
>both
>> devices need to be driven from a GK-style pickup controller.
>>
>> Unless I overlooked something in the original problem description.
>> Kevin...?
>>
>> (P.S. There's another footswitch besides the GKP-4 or US-20 that will
>> allow
>> you to take two GK inputs and route them to three different devices.
> It's
>> a
>> custom job from a different company out of, I think, Germany. It's
>> expensive, but not so much more than having to pay $200 for a US-20. At
>> least you feel like you're getting something besides ripped off for that
>> one.)
>>
>> --m.
>
>
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