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Midi Guitars
Toby Clifton-Everest
SCMP 111
One of the most interesting, if not quite the most practical innovations in modern guitar playing has come from the MIDI guitar. Put simply, a MIDI guitar allows a guitarist to play a synthesizer using a guitar of almost any kind (Electric and steel or nylon strung acoustic). ...
Synthesizer guitars, much like synthesizer keyboards, allows the guitarist far more options for different sound and in theory gives you a ‘six-string orchestra’. ... MIDI, or Musical Instrument Digital Interface, which is the standard in polyphonic synthesis today, allows for easy digital manipulation of a part a musician has recorded. ... This is possible because MIDI is recorded as a set of digital commands rather than a physical waveform, which actually captures the physical sound through a microphone, which is then converted to digital information through a computer. MIDI also keeps file sizes far smaller than digital waveforms, which at CD quality are approximately ten megabytes a minute, whereas a MIDI file can merely be a few kilobytes for several minutes of music.
When a single note is recorded in MIDI, a ‘note on’ message is sent to the computer. ... This is because the physical sound of the instrument is being recorded, whereas as MIDI records the musicians actions rather than the output. ...
Pitchtracking is a far simpler method of converting guitar sound to MIDI and involves tracking the pitch of each string individually and converting it to MIDI data. ... It takes time to track the pitch of the string, because at least one full cycle of the waveform has to be heard this then must be converted into a voltage and then again to MIDI. ... While Midi Bass guitars do exist, tracking low frequencies with Pitchtracking is far less effective than with midrange frequencies.
Approximate Word count = 1430
Approximate Pages = 5.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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