Thank you, Xtian. I couldn’t wish for better validation and it makes it all worthwhile.
I would host the vst directly in Midi Guitar, but it is not possible. Pigments will not work inside the current Midi Hex beta. It locks up the program.
I turned down the gate, and it did have an impact on tracking speed. The trick is to find the sweet spot where you get the faster tracking without the spurious notes. It takes a while to dial that in, but it is easier to do with the new indicators added in this version.
I recommend keeping track and writing down the results of different settings that display tracking quality, latency, and spurious notes. After adjusting gate, and input gain, I was able to obtain 85 tracking quality, 2% spurious notes, and 3 ms. latency value.
Well made man!
Thanks for posting!
Just a question : How did you install GK5 on a Strandberg Guitar?
Where the unit goes? I need to know as the Boden standard it’s very temptive…
I have installed the GK5 in a strandberg fusion NX6.
The space between the bridge pickup and the bridge is a bit larger than on a standard strandberg boden. I also have a boden tremolo standard, but I’m not sure that you can easily insert the GK5 on this guitar.
The strandberg is plugged in a pedal board with a GM-800 and a QuadCortex.
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I am using the Mac version and have been playing very successfully with Pigments in MG3 Hex Beta this very afternoon. Also Roli equator works well.
The Hex tracking is wonderful, more so the feel for me when comparing to GP-10 or GR-55 midi convection. Latency may be slightly better overall but playing feel in MG3 is way better.
Must be the Windows Hex version. Using GM-800 as audio interface. Tried Pigments several times, and it locks up every time. It also needs much more juice. I’m testing Plasmonic standalone and only getting 2 cpus being used. Wasn’t there a way to force multicore? I can’t find it. Nevermind, I found the force multithreading. I will try that. Tried force multicore, and highest buffer available still has many crackles. Took out the midi out machine, and it is now working much better, but still can’t use Pigments.
Ambient Heaven: MPE Plasmonic with expression pedal controlling pressure and brightness, and GK-5 Hex Audio with Deep Expressor and Eventide Crystals, all going to Eventide Blackhole Reverb and then looped using Enso looper. The problem with the crackles was remedied when I got rid of the midi output module. Mind = blown!
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I have Enso looper in a chain and I want to trigger the record button with a footpedal. I have one connected to the gm-800 outputting on cc30, but Enso looper when I set it to learn, doesn’t see the midi. Any way to get this to work? Is there any way to send midi within an audio chain? I’ve tried adding a midi machine but that didn’t work.
Also, how do you remove a chain module? Or are they fixed when you create a new patch?
You can add CC30 in the Enso module by clicking in one of the four squares:
In the patch-bay you select a button reacting on CC30 and draw a line to the Enso module.
Removing a module from a chain works with dragging it outside.
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That did it. Thanks! Is there a way to remove the chain itself, and not just the modules within the chain?
Added Sigmund 2 and Sweetspot, a footswitch for Enso, and I put the reverb in the right place–switched to after the looper. No glitching with a 128 buffer.
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The amount of chains you will have is pre-defined by the amount of rows you select. Once you selected 3 rows (3 chains) you can’t revert it without losing your setup.
Surely there is no such correlation between Chains and Rows?
Except for the two “factory patches”(Introduction and MINI) all patches have 3 Chains that can be viewed in either of three ways (On 1 row, 2 rows, or on 3 rows).
Have you managed to create a two Chain patch on 2 Rows?
@LoFiLeiF
Sorry, yes, you are right! There are always 3 chains, though one is sometimes “hidden” (pending on the amount of rows) due to the window size.
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I like to have Enso looper always on top of the other windows, but as soon as I select a different module, it disappears.
There is a solution–it’s called Microsoft PowerToys. You select the window that you want always-on-top and then press the key command, ctrl-windowskey-T. Once activated, the window will have a border around it. You can customize the border to change color, thickness, or no border. The link is below:
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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 would guess the majority of owners of hex pickups already have an audio interface–the GP-10, SY-1000, or GM-800. These units all act as audio interfaces.
Pro tip: If you are using the GM-800, you can use its alt-tune and string mute midi capabilities on a separate chain with the midi device module.
I setup a third chain with GM-800 in the Midi Device before Modo Bass and through the GM-800 settings, muted all but the E and A. Just make sure you turn off the chain. When the chain is active, the MG3 tracking midi overides the GM-800 pitch to midi.
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!