Because you often times make it sound like you have no problem with the latency in MG3. That’s a bit misleading. To newbies. You should perhaps tell it like it is.
Ah! I see.
Starting with MIDI Guitar 3 - Things you need to know
Starting with MIDI Guitar 3 - Things you need to know (part 2)
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Thanks, Leif, though all the settings for MG3 may/must be very important, this is very complicated for me what you describe, even if it’s important and well described by you. You do very good videos and your playing is awesome but I can’t so far handle MG3 so I go with MG2 which I can pretty much understand. Maybe in the future MG3 will be better even for me… BTW, MG in any version is very good anyhow, amazing what we can do with it, it’s just about small details.
Go with what works for you! 
Low Latency? Can you strum on a piano?
I had many MIDI guitar setups, some were several thousand dollars but none of them could do this on a Piano plugin (Spectrasonics)
48Khz at 16 samples, RTL is about 3ms + another 3-4ms that MG3 HEX introduced.
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That is good! I just saw that the HEX should not work with the regular licence so it’s not strange it didn’t work here yesterday when I tested it 
Hello All,
I’ve just joined, and I’m honored to be here with all of the forum’s Midi Guitar enthusiasts!
If I might lightly “introduce myself,” my name is Robby H.
I helped Ole’ (the Wizard Tech Developer, and owner of MIDI Guitar,) to re-write the original
Help manual for the very first iteration of Midi Guitar. (Dec. 17, 2013 Jam Origin announced version 1.0)
- This is an absolutely amazing bit of software, and I feel extremely fortunate that I have been able to be alive long enough, to see these amazing technological breakthroughs in MIDI Guitar!
I just turned seventy this year, and I remember clearly the fumblings and foibles of the early Yamaha Midi Guitar guitar. (I believe it was The first Yamaha product to support MIDI and it was the CX5M, which was released in 1984.)
There have been many, many hardware units since then, that have tried to harness MIDI via the guitar, but the exorbitant prices kept many gigging musicians from being able to really implement the technology.
Ole’, has now graciously allowed us all to delve in. This is such an incredibly well priced solution to MIDI guitar. It is above and beyond any other system out there regarding functionality and pricing!
And yes, there are many nuances that have to be addressed as we learn, but if you watch Lofi Leif’s vids, he explains very clearly in his videos, exactly what his settings are etc. They are VERY helpful.
The real key, is that every guitar, every player, etc. has a LOT of variables at hand.
I believe one must first take a good hard look at his actual playing technique. And honestly ask, “Am I really executing notes cleanly WITHOUT Midi guitar, or any overdrive, distortion pedals in the mix?” Are my hammer-ons and pull-offs being executed cleanly and evenly? Playing with a straight up clean sound reveals a LOT. Just analyze your playing for a bit, and test your “natural degree of clean guitar playing.” It may help you out quite a bit.
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I found out early on, that my damping technique on the bridge was just NOT working. I re-calculated a different approach, and that helped immensely. Lofi Leif mentions how he personally comes in “from the top,” and uses hybrid picking to execute notes more cleanly.
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And speaking of Lofi, I would like to give extreme KUDOS to Lofi Leif, as his knowledge of this software is as deep as anyone, I would bet, on the internet at present time. His approach and ideas, have truly helped me get a better understanding of the software.
He has volumes of great videos that are entertaining, inspirational, and informative.
I highly recommend subscribing to his youTube channel if you are serious on digging deeper into MIDI Guitar.
I look forward to hearing all the different ideas and approaches from everyone here!
- Please note: I am not an endorsee of MIDI Guitar or Lofi Leif. I am however, extremely grateful to both of these individuals for their talents, generosity, technical prowess, and personal time, that they have put into this wonderful MIDI Guitar software!
( I have just downloaded the Beta version for MIDI Guitar 3 on Windows . . . and I really look forward to it’s capabilities. 
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Thanks for “Listening!”
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Hi Robert, welcome to the forum. Nice to meet someone who already actively supported MidiGuitar back then.
Even if you are not an ‘endorser’ now, you might still be a valuable support here in the forum
Maybe your experience with the user manual will make you want to share your new suggestions in this direction with everyone here, because so far there are only a few tooltips, which unfortunately can’t explain everything, and no new user manual for MG3 yet. Or what would be better, perhaps a Know Wiki, maybe with links to videos, of course also from Lofileif, which are approvingly excellent.
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” MIDI GUITAR 3 is 7 years in development (over version 2)”
And still the tracking is ssloooooowww
The fact that you talk about “slow tracking” at every opportunity does not make the claim any more correct.
Is it a feeling or do you have numbers to back up your theory?
post a video. others here are not sharing your experience. most here would say that mg2 was already plenty ‘fast’ enough.
as a frame of reference, do you find any other solution to be less ssloooooowww?
speed aside, i have never experienced a more playable solution. somehow mg2/3 captures and transmits notes more musically than any other system i’ve used. everything else is robotic in comparison.
To narrow it down: Does the attack feel too slow after the guitar string is struck? Or does the identified tone come too slowly as midi output?
Is it musically slow if the tone is only recognisably heard by the guitarist after approx. 15-20 ms? How fast should it be at least from a musical point of view?
Reading some comments here it makes me wonder what kind of use of the MG3 and 2 guitarist do.
In my opinion the most important use of the MG 3 is to make your sound professional, at least if you are a live performer.
Couple of days ago a friend of mine a very skilled guitarist, visited me to try the MG 3 as he didn’t know it existed and he was amazed with the response of the MG to his solos. He even played 32nd notes and the response was great.
We chatted a lot about the MG 3 and we agreed that is a very powerful tool for professional musicians, guitarist that are so limited from the guitar sound.
In xmas time i played every evening in a restaurant for 3-4 hours with no problems at all, some few overloads in my cpu that gave small cracks in the sound but as i use MG as pad sounds was not a problem at all.
I know a lot of professional guitarists and they don’t know about MG when I tell them about it.
Now that i have more time I think I will make a video to show how i use the MG and how important is it for live performance, not only for the colour in the guitar sound, but most important for the support of the singing
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Great. It will be interesting to see your video!
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