Channel: Make It In Music

Category: Music

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Description: If you live in the US or Canada and want to say hi feel free to text me: 615-436-5749 A couple years ago I got VERY excited about MPE when I saw the advertising videos online introducing the ROLI Blocks. I bought one, but sold it after about 6 months due to it feeling a bit like a more expressive yet kind of clunky version of a keyboard. Still the idea of MPE expressiveness through midi intrigued me and I liked the idea of what I felt the ROLI was trying to be. So I recently bought the Jamstik Studio guitar, again in search of the perfect MPE Midi controller for myself (as a guitarist). After spending a couple weeks not thrilled with the tracking performance I was getting out of the Jamstik I stumbled across an MPE Controller/Instrument I had never heard of called the Linnstrument (designed by famed inventor Roger Linn). Within a day of owning the Linnstrument I realized it was not what I was looking for ...it was, so much more than that! It was a new intuitive and expressive instrument that I could pick up quite quickly as a guitarist who understands a "fourths" based instrumentation layout, and the tracking was completely seamless as an expressive instrument (vibrato, slides, timbre changes ...though I don't shot that in this video) and no noticeable latency at all. The Jamstik definitely had noticeable latency even at the lowest buffer setting in my DAW ...which made tracking more "clunky" feeling which you can probably tell in this video showing a play through without quantization. It's harder to play well in time with noticeable latency. Though of course you can always quantize after, which I'm sure is what Jamstik users will do. Will I still buy a midi controlled guitar someday when latency and tracking are better? Yes, probably. Will the Jamstik help guitarists lay down Midi? Again, yes. It's just not yet a perfect implementation of guitar to midi. But maybe it's the best yet? The Linnstrument however is a perfect (IMO) implementation of MPE midi control. So I'm going to learn the Linnstrument. A twist I did not expect in my musical story. My main channel for my original music and covers: @David DiMuzio Instagram.com/DavidDiMuzio