So a HEX pickup needs its own external interface? So 2 more pieces of equipment are needed to use MidiGuitarHEX? Is there a consensus on what pickup/interface is best? Dang, hope this doesn’t put regular MG3 on the back-burner…
I have an Apollo twin interface - so if I got a HEX pickup I would need to ALSO get a GP-10, SY-1000, or GM800? ty!
Thanks for the info!! I’ll wait on investing in HEX gear for now - I think MG3 by itself is pretty amazing still.
as you already have the interface then the remaining items will set you back less than $250 if you are willing to buy a used gk pickup, $300 for new.
this solution will require a dual 9v battery pack.
the bill bax cable is ~$120:
completed sales of used gk2/3 pickups are around $100, new ~$150
(i am a satisfied separate strings customer, bill was really helpful)
1 Like
are you referring to ‘audio’ alt tuning or midi?
if midi, what is the advantage of using the gm-800 over the tools inside mg3hex?
So theoretically if using the bill bax cable I could plug its mono-out into my Apollo twin, then use MG3 to re-separate out the 6 channels? Or would that not actually accomplish anything different from just using MG3 by itself?
ah, not with the apollo twin. there was another poster upthread with an 8 channel apollo interface, i mistook you for they.
any 6+ channel interface should work fine with mg3hex. i’m using a zoom l8 mixer at 128 samples, works great. separate knobs for the input gain are handy, both visually as indicators, and for fine tweaking if one string is a little bit too quiet.
i put an alert on reverb for gp-10’s < $275, i see them come up at least a couple of times a month. as @lpspecial said, that is the least expensive entry point for mg3hex.
You can also tune strings in MG by adding a transposer, or even the retuning module, to each string group, the latter can be wired up with modulators to modulate tuning of individual strings…
2 Likes
i sound like that when i try to convince my (imaginary) wife that i need to plunk down $1k for the electro-super-deluxe-conduit-bender and she wigs her eyes over towards the already excellent and in fact superior conduit bender i already have in hand.
why would anyone use this function? especially if you need to turn off the other chains.
The crosstalk issue is encountered with Graphtech Ghost piezo system which is also used for hexaphonic midi. The only way that I could reduce the crosstalk was to lower the sensitivity settings.
double check that the strings are properly assigned. i have no crosstalk issues using the graphtech piezo’s.
when using 6 instances of mg2 i did have to gate each string individually to fix the crosstalk, but mg3hex has some magic inside which rejects input from neighboring strings.
at one point i tried ‘channel 1-6’ to see what would happen. notes plucked on the high e would appear on the low e string. also this type of thing occurred when i had accidentally set two strings to the same input channel.
1 Like
the bill bax cable is ~$120:
Does anybody here use this setup?
I was also intrigued by Bill’s GK Studio Extreme preamp.
Sounds like something that might be the ultimate setup for MG3Hex
https://www.separate-strings.co.uk/gk%20studio%20extreme.html
i saw the extreme earlier and like you i think it would be a great match with mg3hex.
unfortunately though, at the very bottom of the page, it says “PRIVATE VANITY PROJECT
NOT FOR SALE”.
if there is sufficient demand bill might be persuaded to change that, i hope. or perhaps he could work up a box which would allow the end user to attach a gk or other pickup on their own.
I’m working on a “HexBox” interface with GK input and USB output, please be patient…
3 Likes
that sound you’re hearing? that’s the sound of thousands of sleepy gk guitars rising up out of their coffins and coming back to life, courtesy of dutti’s hexbox and mg3hex.
nominated for best vampire/zombie flick evar!
2 Likes
This class compliant USB HexBox will be a must-have for MG3 on iPad! 
3 Likes
Please make sure it works at multiple sample rates, at the very least 44.1 and 48k. I just got a GI-10 and it is only 44.1. Most likely will be selling into soon.
1 Like
Will it work for Windows 10?
I don’t think you can have two audio interfaces at the same time.
I do not have a hex setup yet but I do have a question:
Can you send out each string as a different midi channel from MG3?
Can you mute all open strings?
Thanks
on the former, yes, but i think you lose some mpe functionality.
on the latter, i haven’t tried it, but a per string midi note filter should do the trick.