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MIDI bass?

#21
Thanks for the clarification, very cool. I guess I'll buy one of these, then. My goal, amongst other things, is similar. I need amazing tracking for faster/ghost-noted things, but also for some other things related to my modular synth like triggering sequences and analog events that would require very good timing.

Best,
J
 
#23
G'day Justin,

just wondering if you bought an industrial radio bass, and what you think?
I'm umming and ahhing about getting one, but as a lowly freelance bassplayer with no recording contracts, they're pretty pricey.
I've been using a Roland G88 with GR33b analogue synth, but there are some really cool new sounds out there in digital land that I'd like to play...
Thanks,

JimmyJam
 
#25
I've always thought MIDI triggers in the neck of a bass would be cool, layered underneath the fretboard. Isolation would be crucial, but coupled with a piezo and output for each string would yield some insane results! Maybe even add a ribbon controller on the back of the neck...

: )
 
#27
I was a friend's yesterday who setup piezo saddle pickups and midi on two of his guitars, with a 6 way selector switch between piezo, midi, something to do with magnets, etc. Pretty slick stuff.

I've only become interested in bass to midi because I can now record my soft synths in Reaper, export as midi files, and import them into Guitar Pro and get the sheet music written out for me. Saves me having to do it manually.

Now I want to input my bass guitar signal to midi, record it, import it into GP and have that music written out for me as well. I was considering the Sonuus B2M.
 
#28
I have one of these sweet puppies if you'd like to borrow it:

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My Mom bought it for me at a garage sale!! ;) I've actually always wanted to see if it is the right era of Casio brain where it could be circuit-bent, but I haven't gotten that far. You gotta admit that it'd be kind of cool to get the MIDI Guitar screaming like a whacked out Dangerous SK-1 while swinging it around wildly on stage if it was in the right setting…
 
#29
Believe it or not, I played in a band where the guitarist used one of thos Casio MIDI guitars onstage. I played it many times back then, though it's been well over 20 years. Took a little while to get used to the strings being all floppy and plastic but I remember it as being not at all bad and tracking was surprisingly good. He used it with its onboard sounds, but if memory is correct, couldn't you also MIDI out to other synths or modules?
 
#30
JimmyM said:
Believe it or not, I played in a band where the guitarist used one of thos Casio MIDI guitars onstage. I played it many times back then, though it's been well over 20 years. Took a little while to get used to the strings being all floppy and plastic but I remember it as being not at all bad and tracking was surprisingly good. He used it with its onboard sounds, but if memory is correct, couldn't you also MIDI out to other synths or modules?
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I believe it just becomes like any other midi controller. If I get that Sonuus, I can effectively use any of my soft synths (Moog, Oberheim, etc.) and play any of the programmed banks they have, but instead of using my M-Audio keyboard I'd be using my bass guitar.

That guy I saw with the piezo pickups and midi onboard did that; he plugged his guitar into the Sonnus which was into his computer, brought up a soft synth, selected a sound bank and played the guitar, but the sound out of the speakers was the synth bank, not the guitar.

I still prefer using my keyboards for synths. I only want to have my bass with midi to write music.
 
#31
c0nsilience said:
I've always thought MIDI triggers in the neck of a bass would be cool, layered underneath the fretboard. Isolation would be crucial, but coupled with a piezo and output for each string would yield some insane results! Maybe even add a ribbon controller on the back of the neck...

: )
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This is the way the Industrial Radio instrument works.

It's basically the same system that was used for the Peavey Midibase and Cyberbass instruments. The new basses are better built, the fretting system is more accurate and the tracking is better on the new units from Australia.
 

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