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anyone know what it was like? like what were the specifics in his hooking up his guitar to a MIDI interface?

― jake b. (cerybut), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

Good question. Unfortunately I don't have the answer!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 3 October 2005 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

at the time, I think Roland were the main people to make guitar to MIDI devices. They had these pickups you'd attach to the guitar which would go to a pedal with some knobs, that had MIDI out, and he'd trigger samples with that I guess.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

I've always wanted a midi guitar.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Echo shortgun (italian guitar I had)with pickups taken off and replaced by Roland GK2.That went into a GI10 (I think) and then to a Philip Rees MIDI merge, which used to have a taped up pint glass of iced water on it at gigs to stop it overheating and scrambling the notes cos it was so shit.Robs cheap drum pads also went into it originally, before he bought a Ddrum kit, which was great.
The output of all the drum and guitar data went into our 24 voice Roland S750 sampler, which is why D I Go Pop is full of ´voice stealing´, where new voices cut off old ones, as it was all played live.
Ithankyou.

― Ian Crause, Friday, 7 July 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Thank you, man! Many fans of that record here and over on I Love Music.

On-topic: has anyone here found a workable audio-to-MIDI VST plugin? I've tried a couple, both of which should have enabled this kind of guitar-controlled MIDI stuff, but no success with either. (And thus no hours-of-fun controlling softsynths with guitar.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

whoa. DI Go Pop is an insanely amazing record. i'm glad it got the props it deserved with the recent reissue.

― reverend rock, Friday, 7 July 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

my mind just exploded. di go pop and the eps are some of my favorite music ever, really what inspired me to be a musician nowadays, inspired me to pick up sampling and all. (and now 'arc in round' just came up in itunes) ... ian if you read this i think time will fully vindicate you and rob and phil for the genius music you all produced, and i think that's already begun with the reissue and some criticism i've read recently ... ok i think i'm done being a ridiculous fan boy now, but really, this response was beyond what i expected. again ... some of my favorite music ever, my friends are all really sick of me blathering about it. thanks a lot for the response, thank you more for the music

the live aspect of the music is what i think differentiates it from other sample-heavy artists like skinny puppy or the young gods; i think most of those artists' stuff was sequenced rather than triggered live; something about the live triggering gives the music an organic quality that sits brilliantly against the twisted futuristic sonic pallette

― jake b., Saturday, 8 July 2006 04:05 (eighteen years ago)

christ that really was over the top wasnt it

― jake b, Saturday, 8 July 2006 04:19 (eighteen years ago)

okay i will attempt conciseness and say: hey, ian, you rock a lot.

there's a DI Go Pop reissue? that is good news.

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 8 July 2006 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

one little indian put out two cds in 2004. Go Pop got a 9.something on Pitchfork, and for once they were hyping something worth hyping.

― reverend rock, Saturday, 8 July 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

-- nabisco (--...), July 8th, 2006. (nabisco)

any luck/developments w/this?

& . . . um, has anyone other than Ian Crause (wow!) had experience w/ the GI10? Could you plug it into a laptop to get access to softsynths?

― etc (esskay), Thursday, 3 August 2006 05:20 (eighteen years ago)

i'm bored at work so I've come back to read some IMM threads and I find this one. Damn, of all the "celebs" to post on ILM, this is tops. Did anyone show Ned? I Love Music loves the Disco Inferno!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 4 August 2006 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

yeah its too bad ian didnt become an imm regular. i bet he had some good gig stories

― jake b, Friday, 4 August 2006 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

I have a GI-10, and yes you could control anything that has a MIDI input with it. So, assuming you've got MIDI in on your laptop, you'd be golden.

― martin m. (mushrush), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

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