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MIDI Guitar Introduction

What is MIDI Guitar? MIDI Guitar lets guitar players play a synthesizer with their guitar.

Why use MIDI Guitar? It lets you expand your playing sound and technique into new areas.

What do I need for MIDI Guitar? You need a Guitar Synthesizer and a matching pickup. Click here for some possibilities. A typical set-up is shown here:


MIDI Guitar Links:

MIDI Guitar presents:
The MIDI Guitar Showcase

The MIDI Guitar Showcase





What you need to do MIDI Guitar (this table answers many of my e-mail questions)

  • How to do MIDI Guitar CHEAP
  • MIDI Guitar Pickup Page
  • MIDI Guitar FAQ

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    The MIDI Guitar Axon 100 page

    Axon 100 literature (pdf, 239k) and the Axon 100 operator's manual (pdf, 915k)
    and now on-line, Axon's US distributor, Music Industries

  • Here are two syx file viewers (freeware)(requires Microsoft Excel). You can view and print your patch parameter from a syxex dump file with these:
    GR-1 Viewer (109kb) or GR-50 Viewer (17kb) FREE! The GR-1 viewer also documents the syx file format, which was not included in the GR-1 manual.
  • Joel's favorite GR-1 patches in .syx format download file here. Use the GR-1 patch viewer to see the patch settings, or load the entire syx into your GR-1 (save yours first!). My favorite is #112, Pad PJP.

  • MIDI Guitar FAQ
  • Digital Guitar Archives, the classic mailing list archive for many years

    MIDI Guitar Products

  • Godin guitar synth-ready guitars w/great reviews. Available at 12 Fret.
  • RMC Pickup Co. makes bridge pickups for high-quality MIDI guitar retrofits.
  • Starr Labs (make a great switch-style MIDI guitar)
  • Axon AX-100 Latest Guitar Interface uses neural nets and transients to speed detection.
  • Roland Corporation musical instruments list.
  • SHADOW's WEB site (WM: still active? they may have discontinued production) . They also make MIDI pickups for Roland and Shadow units, including a MIDI pickup for classical guitar. e-mail Shadow.
  • The MIDI Guitar Shadow page
  • SHADOW SH-075 Manual courtesy of Shadow USA on pdf
  • The VG-8 a resource on Roland's cosmic stomp-box.
  • GR-30 A non-official page for GR-30 users.
  • Yamaha G50 guitar interface (made by Axon)
  • MidiAxe a complete midi guitar system, a nice guitar, converter, midi out, maybe a sound board too. The price range is $3,595 to $3,995 US MSRP including cable, power supply and case.
  • the G_VOX system a now bankrupt computer guitar interface, aimed at guitar instruction and sequencing. (users report frustration or delight, I've never tried it).
  • Timtone...the foremost Midi/Custom instrument maker (about 40% of everything we make is midi'd)
  • the John Birch system
  • MIDI Classics
  • Elite Sound

    MIDI guitar Player's Page links:

  • Toubadour Tech midi guitar info as well as tips on being a "one-man-band"; I've used a lot of John's tricks in my set-up.
  • MIDI Picking by Harry
  • Gerald's MIDI Cha-Cha, Swing, Fingerstyle Guitar, Polka, Mambo and More!
  • Kucharski's Fingerstyle Guitar Page
  • Jeff has great tips on MIDI Guitar, Sequencing, reviews, and more.
  • Claude Ciari

    Here are some NON-MIDI guitar links:

  • The Classical Guitar Home Page a nice collection of beginner music and mailing list available
  • Guitar Archives
  • Harmony Central: Guitar: Other Topics
  • MidiWeb
  • Presto a program to help sort out chords and learn guitar solos
  • Cakewalk A guitar-friendly sequencer for DOS and Windows. Check out Cakewalk Guitar Studio, specifically designed for MIDI Guitarists!
  • Standard MIDI Files on the Net An extensive listing of places to download MIDI files.
  • The Macintosh MIDI User's Internet Guide
  • Synth Zone info on many specific synths
  • a java chord calculator
  • Try OLGA, the On-Line Guitar Archive of chords and Tablature for guitar:
    Search the Online Guitar Archive (OLGA)

    Tabs Bass Tabs Chords Chord.Pro Lyrics Nashville numbering



    Note: All links are presented for academic enlightenment. Have fun!

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