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Re: OT: Building a Midi Breakout Box
If I just wanted to record or amplify certain strings, like sending bass
strings on guitar into a Pog or other octaver for bass sounds, do these
pickups work that way or just for guitar synth?
Andy Owens
1-800-AndyOwens
Sent from my iPhone
So the typing might not be my best!
On Jan 26, 2011, at 9:54 AM, "Dean, Hal" <HDean@wcupa.edu> wrote:
> Kevin,
>
> I've been dreaming of the separate strings thing for years and have been
>in regular contact with Richard McLish about his fanout. Last promise was
>a new batch in October 2010 - didn't happen, and I don't think it ever
>will. Meanwhile, I've been following Bill Baxendale's work and, although
>his web site is awful, his posts on guitar forums made it clear he really
>knows what he is doing and that people who had his stuff liked it. So, I
>took the plunge and bought his breakout box.
>
> I have other projects from which I can't divert too much attention to
>this right now, but I've started to fool with it for an hour at a time a
>few nights. It is really well made and works perfectly right out of the
>box. I have a by now antique setup using a GI-10 and a variety of
>MIDI-equipped guitars; so far all I've tried with this is the PRS I
>bought from Kris H. and had Graphtech hex pickups installed on.
>
> Not wanting to dedicate my RME 800 to this, I routed 4 strings into
>open inputs on it and sent the other two into a Boss VF-1. From there
>I've been experimenting in a most unscientific manner, just setting up
>templates in Cubase and Reaper and adding effects to each input. Given
>that the signal is weak I've put Voxengo Boogex on each channel. The
>recordings have low signal level for each individual string but when you
>listen to them together it is robust. I also did a bit of mangling each
>track independently, normalizing, reversing, chopping and the like. The
>sound quality remained excellent.
>
> I'm sure there is a more sophisticated way to boost the signals, but I'm
>just learning Reaper and hadn't gotten there yet. I suspect Ableton Live
>will eventually prove the best program for use with this setup.
>
> Then there is looping. I have a laptop dedicated to that (Mobius in
>Bidule), with a soundcard that does not have 6 inputs. I haven't gotten
>into Mobius 1.43. Sometime this spring I imagine I will devote some time
>to learning 1.43, taking advantage of some of the amazing script
>development that is happening, and do all that on the desktop that I have
>the RME 800 on.... at which point the 6 strings into Mobius would be a
>truly sick puppy. I'll report on all this from time to time.
>
> Bill Baxendale is a real craftsman and great engineer and provided
>fabulous service. No, it is not cheap, but the breakout box is VERY cool.
>
> As for the Unfretted project, I too was intimidated by the skill level
>required to make it. I joined mfg.com with an eye towards "managing"
>production, perhaps soliciting interest from others on this list and
>elsewhere, but I never pursued it. You could consider taking that on.
>
> Hal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Cheli-Colando [mailto:billowhead@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 4:49 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: OT: Building a Midi Breakout Box
>
> Yeah I've been in contact with him but he's quoting something like 60
>pounds in freight (almost $100 in shipping) so it winds up just a little
>bit under the price of the RMC Fanout box.
>
> I'm thinking I'll be shelving this thought for a while.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Gareth Whittock
><buddhamachine@live.co.uk> wrote:
>> Have a look at this Kevin:
>>
>> http://billbax.110mb.com/
>>
>> G
>>
>>> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:21:51 -0800
>>> Subject: OT: Building a Midi Breakout Box
>>> From: billowhead@gmail.com
>>> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>>>
>>> Hello soldier fiends,
>>>
>>> Having looked into the basic Midi breakout boxes available for the VG
>>> 8, etc, I realized, I don't have $400 to buy one of these. So looking
>>> around I found this
>>> http://www.unfretted.com/loader.php?LINK=/profs/breakout
>>>
>>> Any of you technically inclined people have any advice on how to do
>>> this (for a basic novice who has soldered a thing or two but never
>>> built a functioning device)? I'm wondering a couple of things a), how
>>> feasible is this b) about how much a home brew would cost c) anyone
>>> with the skills willing to build one (for a fee of course).
>>>
>>> I'm at the level where I'm not sure I could actually do anything with
>>> these plans but I could probably put it together if I had the parts.
>>>
>>> Feel free to tell me I'm better off without the dream of processing
>>> six strings separately. I think I might be better off that way.
>>> Unless one of you out there......
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>> --
>>> Till now you seriously considered yourself to be the body and to have
>>> a form. That is the primal ignorance which is the root cause of all
>trouble.
>>>
>>> - Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950)
>>>
>>> Sound and Vision: http://www.minds-eye.org Video
>>> http://www.vimeo.com/user877640/videos
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Till now you seriously considered yourself to be the body and to have a
>form. That is the primal ignorance which is the root cause of all trouble.
>
> - Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950)
>
> Sound and Vision: http://www.minds-eye.org Video
>http://www.vimeo.com/user877640/videos
>