CRAZY IDEA WORKS !! GT6B to control software synth

[gumtown]

i tried the craziest thing the other day, i have a software synthesizer (Z3TA+)
and a pitch to midi program (TS-audio2midi), patched together with midiOx and my Edirol UA20 USB-to-midi & audio adapter into my laptop.

what i did was arrange patches in the soft synth and GT6B to match, setting the pedal on the GT6B to control the volume of the GT6B sound and the soft-synth sound, toe down = bass, heel down = synth, with a mix of the two in the middle.

the midi adapter uses the pedal and patch change messages from the GT6B to control the same on the softsynth (via midiOx midi patching to send the data to the right device), so as you change GT6B patches the softsynth changes to the same patch number.

the 'TS audio to midi' program takes the bass signal from a 'Y' connector before going into the GT6B, and goes into the Edirol adapter 'audio input' where the program changes audio pitch to midi note on/off & pitch data, and is also patched via midiOx to the soft-synth, the audio output from the soft-synth comes back out of the 'edirol usb adapter audio output port' and back into the second channel on my bass amp (GT6B output into the first channel).

THE RESULTS ARE AMAZING !!! full on synthesizer controlled by my bass, i tried it at a gig live & you should have seen the looks " where's the synth coming from?" the note pickup was a bit slow, but it is accurate, good for long swelling synth sounds or arppegiated riffs.

[Ricig]

Hi Gum, i can barely understand it, but i'd love to have a listen!! Would you have a recording of this in action that you could post? I'm quite fascinated by your GT-6B application and for that matter, by any application of the GT's in atypical or unconventional ways! :icon_surprised: Thanks!

[gumtown]

It works just as well with the GT10B too, using the USB connection.
basicaly what i am doing is sending the Audio via USB to a computer program which translates pitch (notes played) to the midi note equivilents (just like the GR series of midi guitar products).
The midi notes are passed to a synth module or a software synth (or a sampler if required), in this case i used the Z3TA++ soft synth, it's a softsynth program which models all the famous analog synths.
The output of the softsynth is then passed back out the GT's USB connection and out of the GT's audio output, to the amp.

probably not much live use, but for the novelty factor it is awsum to virtually play a keyboard from ya axe!!!

[4x4uk]

I know this was posted quite some time ago, but only ust recently got my gt pro and thought I would give it a try. Used USB out from the GT into ts audio to midi => (zynaddsubfx soft synth) patched via midiyoke, havent tried sneding patch change messages into the soft synth from the fc300 via gt but cant see any reason why it wouldnt work.

Great novelty value like you said gumtown, was quite impressed with the midi recognition abilities of ts audio2midi, even managed to get it to recognize chords ok after playing around with it for a while

a friend of mine has a sonnus G2m guitar to midi converter which I may borrow for a while. as this would make it a bit more friendly for live playing lead synth sounds

[gumtown]

Let me know how the Sonnus compares to TS midi2audio, all i know is the Sonuus only does monophonic tracking, like to know how well it tracks.:icon14:

[4x4uk]

will do, am curious myself - just need to convince him that he really doesn't need it and it would be a good idea that he loan it to me, your right it only does monophonic tracking but it does recognize bends and pitch changes and from what I remember when he showed it to me the latencey was fairly low. May have misses something in tsmidi2audio in my haste to try it out but it didn't seem to like string bends lol