Midi Steel

[Jerry Dragon]

I recently purchased a used Roland Ready Fender Strat. It has the built in GK3 pickup. I bought a used Roland GR55 and it came with the pickup. I was wondering what I would do with it. I was doing some research on the pedal and found someone here who put a GK3 pickup on his PSG. I had never given it any thought because it is only a 6 string pickup. The gent who posted here said he just put it under the the 6 high strings. I'm thinking I can do that. One question, on the guitar the pickup is fairly close to the strings, on the PSG should I put something under it to get it closer to the strings? Wish me luck and thanks all.

[Karlis Abolins]

You'll want to get as close to the bridge as possible as well as close to the strings. Tracking is greatly improved if you are not picking up harmonics.

Karlis

[Robert Parent]

Hi,

If you are playing E9th, I would place it under strings 3-8. Depending on the string spacing of the pickup you may have to angle the pickup slightly to get the center of the poles aligned with the strings.

Enjoy,
Robert

[Mike Neer]

I played (and still do on occasion) a lot of MIDI steel, but I use software instead of an actual MIDI pickup. In my opinion it works fantastic but for live playing you are tied to your laptop. I invested a lot of money in sounds/plugins and really had a blast with it. I still use it for recording.

I used to play a Roland GR-50 back in the day and it was cool but left a lot to be desired in terms of tracking.

[Chris Templeton]

Buddy Playing with an IVL MIDI organ and strings patches. Partial from my song "Train": https://soundcloud.com/bluespruce8/buddy-ivl

[Jim Palenscar]

I have a number of midi setups- including Photon, IVL, etc. Fun stuff for sure- much better for pads, etc to avoid false triggers and they do use hex pickups. All that being said- MidiGuitar 2 is an app on the iPad and when combined w a midi mixer such as AUM you can do amazing things. An iRig is required to get the signal from the guitar to the iPad.

[Chris Templeton]

Buddy plays it like an expert keyboardist, me, I mostly sounded like a bad one. Great for pads.