axon ax 100 mkii guitar to midi converter

But this advantage may not be as important with mandolin, since it doesn't have the long-cycle bass strings on a guitar.

The Axon's Midi conversion is slightly better than Roland's current conversion because it 'guesses' the pitch based on pick attack transients (or something like that), before the string completes a full cycle. It has waveform modeling (limited sound palette but zero tracking issues), a fairly basic (but good-tracking) onboard synth, and it can still drive an external Midi module or laptop-hosted VSti if you need to expand the sounds. If you don't want to add another sound module and just want to try a different Midi converter, you might consider the new (not quite here yet) Roland VG-99. There is a much wider range of sounds with current VSTi's, but the Motif ES has everything I need at the moment. I'm sticking with a rackmount sound source myself, for the reliability and (relatively) simple setup, but I may eventually be doing this on a laptop. The Roland rackmount synths are also popular sound sources for the Axon, and many people are now starting to use VSTi virtual instruments hosted on a laptop. Like most modern rackmount synths, it has software that allows editing and patch organizing on a computer. I use mine to drive a Yamaha Motif-Rack ES, which has some amazing sounds. I believe most people who own the Axon use it to control an external synth/sampler, and in that role it works very well.

It's included on the device mainly because there was room to squeeze it in, it was cheap for Axon to license, and it can help debug tracking setup before you use the unit to drive an external module. IIRC it's an older Yamaha synth board, I don't recall the exact model. I haven't tried it on a mandolin, but here's some feedback that may help.įirst, even Axon acknowledges (in their forum posts) that the onboard synth engine is pretty weak. Hi, I have an Axon AX100 and a VG-88 that I use with guitar.

Axon ax 100 mkii guitar to midi converter