Hybrid Bass/Guitar slide instrument
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 7:25 am
Hi,
I'm very interested in your products, particularly the i2M. I have an unusual instrument, so I'd like to ask some questions:
The instrument was modified from an electric bass, and is now called an 'analude', with the main differences being:
a) It has high strings as well as low (notes as high as the high octave on a guitar, as low as the A string on a bass).
b) It is played as a slide.
c) It has stereo output, so the bass side and the high side can be output separately (but sometimes are output as mono).
Questions about the i2M applications for this instrument:
1. If I just output in mono, can the i2M recognize all the notes from lowest to highest? Or will it automatically choose one of its modes (bass or guitar) and then cut off either the high notes or the low notes? I ask because this is exactly what my Roland GI-20 does -- it has a switch for bass or guitar, and one way it cuts off some of the notes, and the other way it cuts them off at the other end.
2. I slide often more than an octave. Am I correct that the i2M can track up to +24 pitch bend?
3. Since I have stereo output, it would seem possible to put one i2M on each output, and assign one of them as bass and the other as guitar. Or...is the assignment automatic, made by the device itself? In which case I might be back to the problem of it cutting some of the notes off.
4. Again about using two of the i2Ms on the stereo output: I use a Mac; so I assume that I could gang them into an aggregate device, and record them together?
Thanks...
S.R.
I'm very interested in your products, particularly the i2M. I have an unusual instrument, so I'd like to ask some questions:
The instrument was modified from an electric bass, and is now called an 'analude', with the main differences being:
a) It has high strings as well as low (notes as high as the high octave on a guitar, as low as the A string on a bass).
b) It is played as a slide.
c) It has stereo output, so the bass side and the high side can be output separately (but sometimes are output as mono).
Questions about the i2M applications for this instrument:
1. If I just output in mono, can the i2M recognize all the notes from lowest to highest? Or will it automatically choose one of its modes (bass or guitar) and then cut off either the high notes or the low notes? I ask because this is exactly what my Roland GI-20 does -- it has a switch for bass or guitar, and one way it cuts off some of the notes, and the other way it cuts them off at the other end.
2. I slide often more than an octave. Am I correct that the i2M can track up to +24 pitch bend?
3. Since I have stereo output, it would seem possible to put one i2M on each output, and assign one of them as bass and the other as guitar. Or...is the assignment automatic, made by the device itself? In which case I might be back to the problem of it cutting some of the notes off.
4. Again about using two of the i2Ms on the stereo output: I use a Mac; so I assume that I could gang them into an aggregate device, and record them together?
Thanks...
S.R.