A good midi guitar setup was never cheap.
I had a Jamstik (tracking sucks), Roland system (not very good with VSTi), a $2000 Zitar (looks like a guitar but feels like a keyboard) and I still own a TriplePlay (good but not great, tracking is limited) but I don’t want any of those… I want the MG3 HEX… and coming from a $2000 Zitar, the HEX feels like a bargain.
That being said, if I was very limited on cash I would choose the MG3 (not the HEX version), it works really great, the only limitation is on complex chordal play.
I fully agree with you @ElectroFuzz! Personally I find the TriplePlay PU and GUI useless. That purchase was wasted money for me. I couldn’t get it tracking just half as good as all the Roland and Boss devices do. But nothing I have here is topping MG3Hex in terms of response, accuracy, dynamics and “feel good” playing mood!
SoundPaint Duduk Virtuose and Omnisphere 3 on the “drone background” thing.
I absolutely love this instrument, the clams where the the sound chokes out on bending happens
when the flesh from the bending finger touches the adjacent string and creates the slightest noise.
On monophonic instruments, this tinny noise will send a NOTE OFF to the currently playing note. That’s why we need a monophonic mode for HEX. In these cases the non-HEX version can do a better job. This Duduk is “semi-monophonic”, I need to dive deep into SoundPaint engine and see if I can make it full Polyphonic, then the clams disappear. By the way SoundPaint is free and it comes with a huge free library (they want to dethrone Kontakt), this Duduk is paid but the free stuff is really great as well.
