Even Harmonic GTAK1

[BobTheDog]

Hi Guys,

Interesting little thing at http://evenharmonic.com/products/gtak

Basically a KSP script that makes controlling Kontakt 3 from a midi guitar less of a pain.

I am going to look at the demo and see what it is like.

Andy

[BobTheDog]

This is an excellent little thing, if you have Kontakt 3 and use midi guitar it is well worth the cash.

Apart from simplifying the whole process and reducing cpu by using a single instrument rather than 6 is also offers the following:

Allows you as many fret splits as you want

Allows you as many string splits and combinations as you want.

Allows you to use pick position if you have an axon to select instruments.

Its all very easy to use and comes with the full Kontact 3 library instruments changed to work properly with it.

Excellent value for money.

Andy

[ReaktorFreak]

But can't we write the script ourselves ? Or is it too complicated ?

[BobTheDog]

I think you pay the money to avoid having to write the script and change every instrument in the library.

[ReaktorFreak]

That's very worth the money then ! Yeah, in Reaktor to implement MIDI guitar mode every ensemble needs to be modded..

[BobTheDog]

Did you see the thing I posted in the Reaktor Library about midi guitar and changing ensembles?

[ReaktorFreak]

Of course, MGC right ? Yeah, i see that the Acoustring has to be modded to be compatible with MIDI Guitar mode..

[ReaktorFreak]

Have you try converting the 6 pitchbend data stream to poly aftertouch ? If it's successful you could have pitchbend data for each voice independently. Although i have no idea how to use the poly aftertouch module

[BobTheDog]

MGC has got individual pitch-bend for each voice or am I misunderstanding you?

Andu

[ReaktorFreak]

Well, i mean for transmitting to external MIDI devices that supports poly aftertouch, but doesn't have MIDI guitar mode, probably this can be a workaround. Theoretically, the aftertouch containing pitchbend data is polyphonic, so it can be transmitted to the receiving device on one channel, along with Note Ons. Then maybe it can be setup somehow so each note from each string corresponds to the relevant poly aftertouch data that contains the pitchbend data from the relevant string. Then, hopefully the device can interpret poly aftertouch as a pitchbend (like in my Korg X5, mod wheel can be used as one-way pitchbend controller).

What makes me came with this idea is because poly aftertouch seems like the only polyphonic MIDI message type besides Note On/Off, as CC and pitchbend are both mono / global.

But anyway, maybe this isn't possible at all, i don't know..

[BobTheDog]

Ah I see.

So you would need something that could receive the 6 channels and send to one channel. For each channel you would take the last note on message and convert the current pitchbend to poly aftertouch on that note.

The only problem I see is that the guitar can produce the same midi note more than once if it is played on different strings, as each string would have a different pitchbend value we are then in trouble as there is a one to one relation between the note number and the polyphonic aftertouch data.

[ReaktorFreak]

Yes, so the 6 channel can be merged perfectly into one, without discarding each channel pitchbend, like the known way. And just recently i've read a discussion about sending micro tuning scale information through poly aftertouch, so i figure maybe it can also be used for merging individual bend data. But like you said, it's hard to relate the pitchbend as aftertouch value for each note correctly, so it might ended up unrelated at all.