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

[David Fertig <drfertig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Slim, thanks for this, it seems that combining the  Sonuus G2M with the Turbo ELX harp, with its optical sensors and no mic, no ambient sounds would interfere, thus it could be a perfect match for finally achieving MIDI Harp!   How much do those G2M's actually cost?  And I take it that's just a controller unit, so one would need a midi synth unit as well?

-Dave "virtually natural" Fertig

--- On Thu, 11/29/12, harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx <harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Re: [Harp-L] new product turns voice (or harmonica) into midi digital
        	Wednesday, November 28, 2012 7:31 PM
        	
            
            
            From: 
            "Slim Heilpern" <slim@xxxxxxxxxx>
            	
            	
            	
        	To: 
        	"Randy Singer" <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
        	Cc: 
        	"harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Rob Paparozzi" <chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>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.
> 
>
 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. 
> 
> I owned a millioniser but sold it. It was not a harmonica at all.
> 
> this new product promises ease of conversion.
> 
> Gonna check it out.
>> 
>> http://sonuus.com/products_i2m_mp.htm