I recently picked up a Fishman Tripleplay. It's pretty good with a little bit of sensitivity tweaking per string via the software interface. You can, and arguably should, do more by adjusting the saddles. Also I've messed around a bit with the Midi Guitar software. Despite its use of your indigenous pickup, it is in some ways better than a hex/translator device, because it pick ups more nuance in the attack. I can actually get tones when palm muting. However, Midi Guitar's tone bandwidth is easily exceeded, and you have to stop playing till it 'resets'.
In either case, though, the response is not quite like a 'live' string. Except I don't quite want the rawness of that. And pre-amp components, like a compressor, haven't gotten me there. I was thinking of the Bunker Electro-Mute....but they told me it'd be best in their own guitar.....and in any case I think what I need is a hex pickup....because I'm thinking of sending each channel to my computer, and running whatever signal processing for each string, so that I can tailor the attack, envelope, decay, and then timbre. Ideally, it would be USB.
I'd really like to go optical, or would piezo do? Any other thoughts?
In either case, though, the response is not quite like a 'live' string. Except I don't quite want the rawness of that. And pre-amp components, like a compressor, haven't gotten me there. I was thinking of the Bunker Electro-Mute....but they told me it'd be best in their own guitar.....and in any case I think what I need is a hex pickup....because I'm thinking of sending each channel to my computer, and running whatever signal processing for each string, so that I can tailor the attack, envelope, decay, and then timbre. Ideally, it would be USB.
I'd really like to go optical, or would piezo do? Any other thoughts?
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