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New guitar and GI-20 - ? about set-up and sounds
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| Ray_Chappell |
As I said in the title, just got a new guitar (Godin LGXT AAA with 13 pin build in, yeah!) and a Roland GI-20. So, this will give me MIDI from my guitar. I've got 2 questions...
Are any of the sounds on the GI 20 worth using, anyone used one? Not the reason I bought it, but wondering if anyone's heard the built in synth sounds.
And my other question (the main one) pertains to MIDI... If I want the GI-20 to go to my synth, to play sounds on the synth (Motif ES) from the guitar, how best do I wire the MIDI? GI 20 MIDI out to Motif MIDI in? And what if I wanted to switch to play sounds on Reason? Just curious if anyone has set-up anything similar.
THANKS! |
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| 3F05Q |
USB to your computer, MIDI to your synth. The USB should send midi to the computer.
Remember to select poly or mono midi depending on your situation. In poly it sends all six strings on ONE midi channel. In mono, each string has its own channel. Personally.. and this is from an Ableton Live perspective.. I would run in mono mode and route the 6 strings as I see fit. Your computer would be the hub and you could route back out to the synth. Sounds like fun! |
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| Ray_Chappell |
| That's VERY helpful - thank you! Used this before I take it? I'm running with Ableton as well. Appreciate it! |
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| 3F05Q |
No, but I was looking into those Yamaha EZ-EG learning/teaching guitars. I remembered how they use 6 seperate channels and looked up the manual for the GI-20 to see if it was similar in that regard.
So, yeah... I'd go the long route if you want to do something special with multiple instruments. Open 6 midi tracks and set the midi ouputs to whatever you want. For instance, EAD to a bass synth, and GBE to a lead. Sounds like fun, really, and it's something I'd love to make part of a live show. |
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| kitphillips |
| You'll get massive latency like this is the only thing... I'd run a "dummy" guitar sound so that you can play along (from the GI 20) and then run pure midi into the computer, then rerun the recorded midi through the Motif, you might need a midi splitter or something. Hope that makes sense... |
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| Ray_Chappell |
Thanks, RichieV. Pretty excited to get this thing working!
KitPhillips, thanks for the heads up. If I record into Ableton, what I may be able to do is direct midi in and select that on the track, so it is recording the midi events, then direct that track to a second which is pointing to the Motif i/o. It's kind of what I have to do when I rewire Reason.
I'll try a few different ways and check back in. Really appreciate the help! |
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| Ray_Chappell |
Sometimes it is just a matter of keeping it simple. I ended up just routing USB to Ableton, and have the midi out pointed at whatever I want to use as the soundbank. For whatever reason, their diagram in the manual actually confused me... there's no need to route midi to the Motif or where ever as long as I'm using the sequencer to track. There was some latency, but I think I've adjusted it in Ableton to get it about right.
And MAN... this is awesome. It tracks really well and I've just sat here for the past couple hours going through various sound sources (Reason, Motif, etc.) to strum the guitar too... very very cool, and lots of fun! |
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| kitphillips |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ray_Chappell
Thanks, RichieV. Pretty excited to get this thing working!
KitPhillips, thanks for the heads up. If I record into Ableton, what I may be able to do is direct midi in and select that on the track, so it is recording the midi events, then direct that track to a second which is pointing to the Motif i/o. It's kind of what I have to do when I rewire Reason.
I'll try a few different ways and check back in. Really appreciate the help! |
See, I have my latency set to about 40ms each way, so if I tried this I would be waiting nearly a second to hear any sound:( But if you lower the latency then I guess thats fine... |
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