<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:57 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">MIDI is a great composition tool, but I contend that for performance purposes, actually plucking the strings on an actual guitar is better than digital simulations of each pitch. Reasoning: plucking a guitar string excites resonances in other strings in different ways, depending on which other strings are vibrating. So in theory a MIDI guitar cannot be exactly the same as an actual guitar. MIDI is perfectly acceptable for composing, but this guitar robot is the next step, a really cool one.</span></p>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Digital composition is more than MIDI and simple instrument simulations. For example, listen to some of the demos here:<br><br> <a href="http://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/guitar/scarbee-rickenbacker-bass/?content=2335">http://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/guitar/scarbee-rickenbacker-bass/?content=2335</a><br>
<br></div><div>These are digital compositions played using samples of real instruments.<br><br></div><div>The guitar robot is a cute visual art piece, but it's basically steam punk tech: expensive, complex, and unreliable. It will never become a commercial product.<br>
<br></div><div>-Dave<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>