How would this work with the Sonuus B2M device? I am looking for cool sounds that will emulate Top40/HipHop/Dance synth sounds? Sounds like the Morph or Evolver might work. What's your opinion on this?
I havent been able to try one but have been concidering one. My impression from all the utube vids and sonuus vids is this:
1. Guitar works much better then bass. Even the well known bass players who did a vid get a lot of shimmer sounds between notes. This maybe useful for a peice of music but not all night long. However with the guitar demons you get a diff story. Does much better and does quite well at using guitar to trigger various bass synth voices. To include being able to do modrately fast bass grooves on guitar with it. The one reviewer who tried his b2m on guitar found it produced fewer ghost notes and glitches with guitar. Pretty much every vid with bass being played had high treble voiced synth instruments playing. Unlike the guitar ones which often included bass voices. It appears that the b2m doesnt much create low octave note. You could fix this by transposing your keyboard settings down one or two octaves. But still....
2. Playing techinuque plays big role in qaulity of sound tracking your keyboard synth or sound midi port equitped synth sound module like dave smith evolver, Nord lead2x rack, etc etc. is gonna produce. Sloppy playing is gonna cause more glitches. Sonuus mentions using the device as a trainer to help one improve their playing technique and ability. Lol. Being very good at muting unwanted string sounds will help. Perhaps the guitar player demoers where just better then the bass player vid peeps as far as playing technique needed for best results? LOl. Anyway Id have to approach the b2m and g2m with intention of giving it a week of practice with. Before returning it if initial results was horrible. To have a better opinion about how well itd work for me once I got used to playing as it needs one to play for best results. if I got one.
At this point if I got one of the units it would be the B2M and with intention of mainly using it for guitar rather then bass. Id use the B2M cause tester found it worked on guitar high e string up to 12th fret. And I figure its note detection, tracking and so on would be a bit more robust then the guitar version. Since its been made to try and handle the harder bass notes of bass guitar.
I am tempted to get one thru MF or other with 30 day return policy if I cant get it to wrok ok for me with practice with it. Id use it to trigger some wicked bass synth voices and slow evolving bass pads on guitar mostly. And maybe some stuff with bass if it will work well enough.
I did also notice that if you program your synths voices with long release you can efectively layer notes. Even though the midi signal is for monophonic synth style. So multi note stuff is possible. This would actually work better then a monopoly synth keyboard since you have the abilty to stack pads and long term notes. Something you cant actually do with a keyboard synth set to monophonic mode.
In the end Id say I like what I'm seeing and hearing from the g2m for guitar and b2m for guitar, and a bit disapointed but not entirely so in what I'm seeing and hearing in bass demos for the b2m.
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