Yes, big good luck with the software!
You have to be patient. Version 2 came out in 2015, AFAIR.
I have been a younger man at that time.
Jam Origin have their own sense of time.
So don’t hold your breath. 
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Very happy to hear you are still going. If you think I can be of any help please let me know?
Great to see you and so many fans from a decade ago!
You all paved a long runway for us, and now we are looking forward for the third takeoff
Thank you for the support, everyone.
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How can you NEED something that doesn’t exist yet? Well it definitely feels like I need MG3. I love MG2, but as a slide guitar player, I yearn to be released from monophonic pitch bend. I particularly love the combination of guitar sound with ambient synth sounds in the background. MG2 does this very well, as long as I fret the strings. I’m using NI Reaktor when I play slide but it’s limited and complicated. As a guitar builder I’m trying to create instruments that have an extended arsenal of tones, like hybrid acoustic/electric pickup systems. I’m seriously expecting MG3 to lift the guitar to a new level, together with the Deep Amp module and the Guitar Mods. I hope the Guitar Mods will include sitar like sounds (with sympathetic sting like reverb). And I hope that GM3 will work somewhat like Cantabile, the wonderful software that lets you control your VST instruments and effects like a DAW and switch between setups easily.
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I dont expect much of an improvement to MG2. It will be almost impossible to get faster than than the speed of signals in electronic systems. ( C ?) . This product is already light years ahead of others in the field. I LOVE IT
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What I am saying only concerns me: with its practicality as a “mini plugin host” for simple applications, MG2 is perfectly self-efficient and impressive.
But from there to become a real host with all the functions, extensions, GUI, etc. that it requires, it would be necessary to call upon a whole team of developers! And I can not even imagine the time it would take…
MG2 - which is basically an audio2midi converter - is a plugin that fits perfectly into a daw or a plugin host like Cantabile, Mainstage, Gig Performer or others, and not the other way around.
Personally, this is how I have been using it for several years and it gives me an absolutely ideal tool to play live with all the instruments and effects I have ever dreamed of. 
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When I say ‘somewhat like Cantabile’ I mean it can rout the audio signal and the MIDI signal to various VST instruments and effects and store this into a ‘scene’, with the possibility to have some scenes prestored in memory so you can switch to a new sound without noticeable delay. Using MG2 and Cantabile is a heavy load on the CPU, with various tasks being performed twice. I’m pretty sure some of these wishes will be implemented in MG3. But my main wish remains to be able to play slide guitar and have it converted to MIDI.
I love GM2, but I do expect major improvements. They have been announced, and it’s taken quite some time.
The problem can have several causes: a computer that is not powerful enough, an operating system that is not optimised for audio (for Windows users) or an issue with Cantabile but I do not use it.
Personally I use Gig Performer in which MG2 is the central connection point to all my other plugins and I sometimes use several instances each with lot of recallable scenes and with about 20 plugins simultaneously and the system follows without any problem even on a 2012 Lenovo laptop (i5-3320M, 8GB) but fully and solely optimised for audio and nothing else. This is the condition for a stable, reliable and powerful system.
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I have an i7 laptop with 32GB memory and a 2TB SSD. It does work well with Cantabile and MG2, but I do believe it could work more streamlined with the system I described. I have no idea if MPE and polyphonic pitch bend, or even microtonal pitch, will increase the CPU load substantially, but every way you can save on CPU load is important. Using only MG3 and VST’s for live performance would be a giant step forward. I do believe Deep Amp and Guitar Mods may be crucial to this development. Not just for CPU load, also for simplicity’s sake.
Rest assured, MIDI does not affect the cpu. These are simple messages in byte form that are addressed between MIDI devices.
The cpu will be stressed by the audio processing of the MIDI devices.
It’s not the MIDI communication I’m referring to. It’s the translation, by MG3, of a polyphonic guitar signal to MPE and MIDI2. Up to now the CPU load of MG was connected to translating audio to pitch to MIDI. Undoubtedly conversion to MPE will affect the amount of information that needs to be analysed. It’s not taking so long for nothing, going from MG2 to MG3 is a huge change.
I’m happy with MG2. who thought MG3 coming soon was a good idea to post almost a year ago?
I must have missed the information, I had already read the MG3 announcement and the link to the roadmap but I didn’t know it was announced to come soon.
Might JamO make an announcement in the manner of Behringer? 
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REQUEST… It would be nice if one could switch from polyphonic to monophonic mode and vice-versa via MIDI. Since playing live I switch between playing polyphonic and monophonic depending on the virtual instruments I’m playing, it would nice not to have to do that manually.
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Its a good idea. Its possible already - by changing patch with MIDI Program Change. But it could be possible with a new layer of MIDI control on top of it all.
HI JamO… Can you say more about what you mean by “changing patch with MIDI program change”? What patch? I have various virtual instruments loaded on separate tracks in Logic. How would that apply when I’m switching tracks—since MG2 polyphonic or monophonic setting remains the same?
Please see “Help” inside MG2, the page about patches.
The idea is that you can change the MG Patch (ie. the MG settings) by sending it MIDI Program Change. So if you have a Poly Patch and a Mono Patch you can switch between them.
OK. I’ll look into that. Thanks!