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Old July 14th, 2006
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  making the guitar sound like a violin, piano, drum kit and bass

I just did these on the Axon midi converter. I received it yesterday, and have to learn how to use it in the next few days. I have a casual job at a music shop that deals primarily with school music - stage and concert bands etc - and music technology. This new unit is on the market, and I have one in my possession for now....
I will be conducting some workshops on music and technology, and demos of this thing throughout the remainder of the year. I just installed the pickup on my strat and plugged it into give it a try. It tracks really well. The first thing I played simultaneously, I often play walking bass lines and chords if I am playing jazz with a singer or horn player, just that it never sounds like this.
The violin patch I used must have been modelled of a little kid - I sound terrible on that!!!!
If you are like me and from the Mike Tyson school of piano playing, this could be a great breakthrough for us with playing in drum parts etc. The old problems of tracking seem to have been fixed up with this.I have just used the general MIDI sound module that comes with it for now, but I am going to assign the usual drum and bass samples to it soon.
It does need some tweaking within the unit to adjust it to my playing style, and it will probably go onto another guitar that is being provided so that the pickup can be screwed in properly. I just taped it on my strat for now.
If anyone is interested check out Terratec on the web.
Sorry if I sound like a used car salesman!!! Not trying to, just think it may be useful to those of us who play parts in from a keyboard.
When I get it setup properly I will post something using this for everything.