jefferski
Fractal Fanatic
Anyone else here use one of these?
My impressions: very mixed. I got it primarily for recording; so I could play more complex parts than I can play on a keyboard. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to track very well, especially on faster runs and patches that have a sharp attack. Slow parts are decent - flutes, pads, horns - when I'm using them for embellishment or for slow lead melodies, but even those parts don't always track well and I can probably play most of them on keys anyway...
There are online demos where people rip fast piano/organ/sax lines that sound as good as a keyboard or horn player but I can't get anything close to that even though I can play similar parts on the guitar. I'm sure part of it is my technique; the fishman takes every glitch, ghost note, and finger movement as input and tries to produce a note. But I can also play some fast lines pretty cleanly and they still don't track well. Also, I'll use it for piano arpeggios, simple fingerstyle and things like that... not fast at all, but it misses or misreads a lot of the notes. I've also tweaked the various setup options - sensitivity, pickup height, etc, and that hasn't made a significant difference. Also, this isn't a latency problem, it's tracking. Latency on my system is pretty minor.
So, what are your thoughts? Is this really a technique thing, or are we still really dealing with an imperfect guitar-to-midi solution? Or is there a setting I'm missing? The online demos make me think it is possible to really get good sound and tracking out of this thing, and maybe I really need to clean up my playing style to make it work. It's probably the best out there but ...
My impressions: very mixed. I got it primarily for recording; so I could play more complex parts than I can play on a keyboard. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to track very well, especially on faster runs and patches that have a sharp attack. Slow parts are decent - flutes, pads, horns - when I'm using them for embellishment or for slow lead melodies, but even those parts don't always track well and I can probably play most of them on keys anyway...
There are online demos where people rip fast piano/organ/sax lines that sound as good as a keyboard or horn player but I can't get anything close to that even though I can play similar parts on the guitar. I'm sure part of it is my technique; the fishman takes every glitch, ghost note, and finger movement as input and tries to produce a note. But I can also play some fast lines pretty cleanly and they still don't track well. Also, I'll use it for piano arpeggios, simple fingerstyle and things like that... not fast at all, but it misses or misreads a lot of the notes. I've also tweaked the various setup options - sensitivity, pickup height, etc, and that hasn't made a significant difference. Also, this isn't a latency problem, it's tracking. Latency on my system is pretty minor.
So, what are your thoughts? Is this really a technique thing, or are we still really dealing with an imperfect guitar-to-midi solution? Or is there a setting I'm missing? The online demos make me think it is possible to really get good sound and tracking out of this thing, and maybe I really need to clean up my playing style to make it work. It's probably the best out there but ...