It's not possible that this is possible

the benefits of equipping your hex instrument with b-strings from side to side:

  • 5ms latency from top to bottom
  • fewer pesky fingertip string indents

equipment: subsix pickup, behringer umc1820, donner hush-x thru-neck guitar (all existing pickups removed for less interference), korg ep1 wurli200a tremolo, neural dsp archetype cory wong, arturia pre1973. socks by puma.

notes: subsix pickup closer to the neck gives a nice jazzy tone. umc1820 is proving to be quite capable.

i am truly astonished by the string retuning. i’ve never played an antares, but i believe mg3hex is either superior or very soon to be.

‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’.

jamo’s mg3hex = certified magic inside. i am not worthy.

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Wow, all this time I thought the retuning was just a plus or minus transposition for midi instruments, I didn’t realize it would retune the actual wave form of incoming strings string signals? I’ll have to try it. I use an Antares ATG-1 and love it for several reasons. It keeps each string in tune, all the way up the neck. So even if I bump a tuning peg and a string goes flat it will pull it back up. Or, if I tried a different gauge string and my physical intonation is off on some frets, it will pull those back in tune. I also love the physical models, the 12 string is absolutely excellent. Lastly the alt tuning works great, it retunes to any open chord at the press of a button. MG3 Hex needs that autotune feature for each string too, it’s amazing on the ATG-1, and still allows for bends and natural playing.

not quite the same, but string tuning bit me back more than once (forgot i had -4 transpose applied while tuning, tightened the string too much. i think this was while using 6 instances of mg2, long ago).

adding physical models would be killer.

the other option i’m ready for is tuning to scales, so that i can see if just intonation floats my boat.

but as things go i think these features should wait for mg4hex.

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If you have Max 4 Live this might be of interest.

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thanks for sharing that solution.

on the electric side of things i’m pretty covered, plus i’m on live12 standard, no max.

what i am hoping for is acoustic models, like a gibson j200, classical/nylon, a nice banjo, stand up bass, stuff like that. and while i’m dreaming, a way to capture instruments and share them with other mg3 users.