Re: [Harp-L] new product turns voice (or harmonica) into midi digital

[Slim Heilpern <slim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I own a sonuus G2M pitch-to-midi box (they call it a guitar-to-midi controller, but the engineer who designed it told me there's nothing very guitar-specific about it other than the input impedance). This is the stand-alone version (analog audio in, midi out, no USB). 

I've fooled around enough with it to realize that it would work fairly well in a very quiet setting, but even with very close mic'ing of the harmonica (in my case, a CX12), stray sounds (breath noise, guitar leakage, etc...) will cause random midi notes to fire at times which can sound rather unmusical. I was able to tame that significantly by adding a studio quality noise gate before the unit, but the levels have to be just right and you have to play very cleanly.

If one dedicated significant time to getting it set up just right, I'm sure it could be effective for harp, but it's not quite as simple as plug-n-play.

- Slim.

On Nov 28, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Randy Singer wrote:

> I have not evaluated this product but wanted to pass it on.
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> One of the holy grails of harmonica players is to out put as a midi digital signal. So our harmonica can sound like a trumpet, sax, etc. 
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> I owned a millioniser but sold it. It was not a harmonica at all.
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> this new product promises ease of conversion.
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> Gonna check it out.
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>> http://sonuus.com/products_i2m_mp.htm
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