From danforcz@yahoo.com Fri Jun 20 17:57:39 2014
Subject:Re: Electro Harmonix B9

It's interesting, not the sound itself, but the technology behind it.
For example how they could do polyphonic pitch tracking without
hexaphonic pickup. I use Yamaha G10 MIDI guitar with G10C converter,
Yamaha G50 Guitar/MIDI converter for my six string bass guitar (with
hexaphonic pickup B1D), and Casio guitar DG7. Guitar to MIDI
conversion is very sophisticated thing, and despite of all the
technological progress, still it has lot of problems to solve. To
emulate texture and voicing of keyboard instrument on the guitar is
not easy task.

But these are questions for different forum, there's one for MIDI
Guitar, I will bring the discussion there.

Daniel Forro


> As a struggling keyboard player who came over from the dark side see
> the attached video and you will know where I am coming from. The
> Clonewheel makers won't have t lose any sleep yet, but this might
> just be start. So many guitar players have tried to emulate the
> classic B3 and unless you have a midi guitar forget it. This device
> as rudimentary as it is, suggests that with refinements perhaps one
> day I will be able to play my guitar which I am much more fluid on
> and sound like a decent Hammond Clone. Check out the EHX B9 organ
> simulator and try not to laugh to hard. At least they tried.
>
> David Hammond 1951
>
> Ottawa
>