Originally Posted By: Notes Norton
I had an early MIDI guitar, but didn't like it. I'm sure they've improved them by now.

Each string was on a separate MIDI channel. That didn't bother me, but the latency did. And it seemed to me the latency on the low strings was longer than the high notes, so when combining the 6 channels, it didn't sound quite right to my ears.

That's absolutely right, because it takes at least two cycles to get a reliable measure of the frequency. Higher frequencies latch on faster, because they (by definition) are faster.

I've seen guitar controller that's aren't a guitar at all - the strings are triggers, and the fretboard has sensors to determine where the fingers are. It solves the problem of latency by not relying on sound coming from the controller. The downside is that it looks and feels like a toy.




Along those lines, I think how the EWI doesn't use mechanical keys is a really clever solution on how mechanical parts can be removed from a controller.

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?