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From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Amiga + MIDI guitar
Message-ID: <25622@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 23 Jun 91 06:04:25 GMT
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antonello@promind.UUCP (Antonello Biancalana) writes:

>I know that Korg, Shadow and Roland made some good MIDI converters that
>i had to test on my electric guitar.

There's also the Zeta Mirror Six, which is the best of the lot, by far.
I say this even though I was one of the people who created the thing.
It's a good guitar plus a good MIDI instrument, something not so true
of any of the other schemes.

>A thing that be considered is the quality of the MIDI converter.
>Some MIDI converters have a lot of delay on their response, so when you
>pluck your strings, you can hear to the sound after a little delay (Ugh!).

The primary design goal of the Mirror Six was that it should play just like
a guitar - and we came pretty damn close, in my opinion.  Check it out -
it's expensive, but it's neat.
-- 
Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.us