MIDI Guitar 3 - A quest for infinite sustain
Apart from tracking, sustain is one of the most talked about features when it comes to MIDI guitar. Bad sustain can ruin any sense of connection to the virtual instrument via the controller, even if tracking is considered okay. If you get the feeling that your controller is cut off prematurely, you are not in control of the output anymore and that just creates frustration and becomes a problem to solve. My attempt at solving this has gone over eBow, Sustaininac, Plus Pedal, and Moog Guitar, without reaching any acceptable solution. That has been the plague of trying to fix this physically. Enter the new MIDI Guitar 3 software solution:; with its concept of "Infinite Sustain" together with MPE I have no doubt a new era of creativity can be born for guitar players, playing their own favorite guitar with no thoughts even having to go into the translation process anymore. Playing a synth is as easy as opening up any virtual amp, and will demand a bare minimum in terms of adjusting your playing style. The big limitations today are mostly with the virtual instruments not being developed to work for other types of controllers than keyboards, but hopefully, this is just a transition phase. I am so looking forward to hearing about your experiences, in a not-too-distant future.
0:00 Introduction
1:20 The Infinite Sustain quest
1:40 Early coping strategies
1:51 The eBow
2:00 Sustainic
2:15 Why didn't these work for MIDI Guitar?
2:50 Two problems with mechanically artificially sustained notes
4:10 Emphasis on the overtones, over the fundamental
4:45 The Moog Guitar
5:20 The Sustain Module in MG3, and its the functions
5:55 Guitar tone velocity curve profiles
6:46 Example with the Sustain-Freeze Chord function
7:15 Two Kontakt Multipatch Guitars
8:40 MPE - Polyphonic bends
9:51 Example with Gforce Oddity 3 and Infinite Sustain
10:34 MIDI Machines
10:51 Arranging Chains in Rows
11:18 Connecting pedal controller
11:30 Infinite sustain example
12:30 Next chord and dampening
13:39 Adding Xfer Serum
14:44 2nd Example with the Sustain-Freeze Chord function
15:40 Sustain examples without Sustain pedal used
16:35 Infinite sustain as Chord Legato
17:08 Piano-Like Sustain
18:30 Release Time
19:23 No more Pitch bend issues with the Hold pedal
19:50 MPE and Instant freeze together
20:38 Double sustain pedal action
21:15 On and out
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