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MIDI GUITAR 3 IS NOT RELEASED YET!
OVERVIEW
MIDI GUITAR 3 turns any guitar into a blazing fast, multidimensional polyphonic expressive MIDI guitar (MPE MIDI/MIDI 2.0).
Having MIDI at your fingertips change a whole lot, it turns out, and it’s hard to grasp all the possibilities that opens up. MIDI GUITAR 3 looks and feels like a pedal board, but it also resemble a modular synth rack. since just about everything can be cabled up with patch cables and modulated.
It’s not just about MIDI – combine traditional guitar tone with the MIDI based modules and it’s an awesome performance host.
PATCHES
MIDI GUITAR 3 makes it easy to wire together different kinds of modules. Such a combination of modules and wires is simply called a PATCH.
There are three fundamentally different kinds of modules:
- INSTRUMENTS: Synths and virtual instruments.
- EFFECTS: Audio effects, such as compressors, amp sims or effect pedals.
- MIDI MACHINES: Transforming MIDI to MIDI, such as arpeggiators, sequencers and note filters.
MIDI GUITAR MINI PATCH
The simplest possible PATCH will only convert Guitar to MIDI.
MPE-FIRST
The introduction PATCH will get you stated.
There are 4 dimensions of sound to every note you play. This is called multidimensional polyphonic expression.
INCOMPLETE LIST OF BUILT-IN MODULES
CHAIN
A PATCH has up to three CHAINS.
Each chain can hold a series of pedals and modules: MIDI MACHINES, INSTRUMENTS and EFFECTS.
SUSTAINER
There are three modes of sustain: INFINITE SUSTAIN, FREEZE CHORD and PIANO-LIKE.
INFINITE SUSTAIN is an intelligent sustainer which will sustain your chords indefinitely, until you play a new chord.
FREEZE CHORD require a foot controller to be practical. When pressed, it will freeze the chord playing, so that you can play another CHAIN over the chord.
PIANO-LIKE sustain is a sustainer which adds release decay time.
TRANSPOSER
Transpose notes in octaves, semitones or microtones.
DYNAMICS
COMPRESS note dynamics or HOLD the pressure of each note.
Unlike in the audio domain, compression in the MIDI domain is transparent.
VIBRATO
Add vibrato to all notes.
MODULATORS
MODULATORS are envelopes from the guitar or envelope generators. MODULATORS can be wired to almost anything to change its dynamic behaviour over time.
Modulators include:
- Guitar STRIKE
- Guitar PRESSURE
- Guitar BRIGHTNESS
- ASDR (attack, decay, sustain, release) envelope
- SINE
- SQUARE
- SAWTOOTH
- WOBBLE
MODULATORS can also modulate other modulators, for high dimension complex behaviour.
TEST SYNTH
TEST SYNTH is a minimalistic MIDI MPE INSTRUMENT, designed as a reference and testing base. Like all MIDI MPE iINSTRUMENTS, it has 4 dimensions of input control:
- STRIKE.
- PRESSURE
- BRIGHTNESS
- GLIDE
The default behaviour of the first three inputs are the corresponding STRIKE, PRESSURE and BRIGHTNESS envelopes from your guitar. But each of these can be overridden from MIDI CONTROLLERS or MODULATORS.
AUDIOUNIT / VST INSTRUMENTS
Any 3rd party synth or virtual instrument (AU or VST3) can be loaded. They have 4 dimensions of input control:
- STRIKE. This translates into MIDI Velocity.
- PRESSURE. This translates into MIDI Channel Pressure.
- CC 74. This is typically a low pass filter or other BRIGHTNESS control.
- GLIDE. This translates into MIDI Pitch Bend.
The default behaviour of the first two inputs are the corresponding STRIKE and PRESSURE envelopes from your guitar. But each of these can be overridden from MIDI CONTROLLERS or MODULATORS.
SCALE FILTER
When enabled, it will only pass through notes that belong to a particular scale. You can’t make mistakes now 🙂
PITCH FILTER
This is a keyboard split. When enabled, it will only pass through notes that are in a certain pitch range.
STRIKE FILTER
When enabled, only notes with hard strikes pass through.
Useful in series with BASS FILTER.
BASS FILTER
When enabled, it will pass through the lowest note playing and discard all other notes. This will typically give you a root note to drone under other CHAINs.
To make it a bass drone, add a TRANSPOSER afterwards and a INFINITE SUSTAINER to keep it going.
RETUNING
Retune your guitar.
SEQUENCER
Setup four note patterns, for drum machines or backing.
You probably need a TRANSPOSER after it.
ARPEGGIATOR
Arpeggiates over the notes in the chord you play.
SHREDDER
Turns a single note into a series of notes, in a given key. Even if you are slow, you can shred!