Re: [LAU] USB guitar newbie

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, lanas wrote:

> A colleague at work offered me to try his newly-bought cheap ($150)
> USB guitar. He hasn't tried it himself, waiting to build a workstation

the iAxe?

> dedicated to it. So I'm wondering, are these guitars outputting
> through USB actual MIDI notes as a regular MIDI guitar would (eg. the
> Godin MULTIAC nylon string guitars ...) enabling playing, say,
> zynaddsubfx from the guitar ?

These are probably just outputting audio data (like the
iAxe). These appear to your PC as an audio sound card (like
a USB microphone would).

I wouldn't expect MIDI unless the vendor actually advertises
it as a MIDI controller.

-gabriel

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Received on Thu Feb 3 00:15:06 2011