bob

with smart scale choice and a lot of practice it is possible to play basically anything monophonic – ie most guitar solos. but it will take a lot of practice as it’s more like playing a saxophone or a flute than a guitar.

if you’d like to play more notes at once and you’re using ableton you can get really great results using the built in chord and scale plugins. if you’re in a different program, googling midi plugins will get you far. check this out for more of an explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yqd24NTfjM

Your app is awesome. The biggest problem is the playability. It’s very efficient to play notes thats aren’t far from each other, but if I want for example play a riff like Aerodynamic’s one, I just can’t.

But I’ve got an idea: the max/msp that receive events from the guitar have an additionnal midi input (like the vocoder audio input for carrier, but in midi). If you send a 5 notes chord into it, you can play theses notes immediatly with the 5 buttons, like in the Guitar Hero game !

This will have two big effects:
1) Playability goes to MAXIMUM if you’re used to play GH (like me héhé :D)
2) The scenic part is bigger, you seems to play more like a real guitar and that’s what I want more

What do you think about it ? I wish I could do this myself but I’m completly newbe to max programming

musicaly yours,
Marty Lake

I wont bore you but its all looking like its running fine but the tilt censor’s just seem to be throwing out heaps of midi so much so that nothing else works in either mode… could it be an issue with my guitar controller maybe?? Im running Mac snow leopard 10.6.7 with the proper driver and already fixed the binky green light issue but everytime i open this in Ableton i can see the midi just constantly being sent it hardly stops…. plus when i go to map something it automaticly goes to the CC and wont accept any other signal as the CC1,2,3 just keep throwing midi

hope you can help me man

cheerz