Thor, introduced last year, is my masterpiece. Following Thor, I proudly announce Valkyrie. It shares the electronics of Thor, but avoiding the more expensive Carbon Fiber construction. It took us months to refine Valkyrie. There’s a story behind Valkyrie x001 I’d like to share later.
The photo below captures the never ending search for paths that may bring me closer to my goal —that elusive dream, ever so vivid in my thoughts when my mind wanders into the realm of infinite possibilities. All the while, there’s that impatient child in me, incessantly nagging; “Are we there yet?” In Retrospect If …
My masterpiece! After years of research and development, starting with the Alpha project, I think my goal is now finally within reach, and I am very pleased and very excited with this creation. Infinite multichannel (polyphonic) sustain. Multichannel direct to DAW audio with BOSS/Roland GK-13 pin outputs via Nexus-GK. Control voltage (CV) to MIDI via Nexus-GK. …
Last time, I posted a short demo of Infinity at v0.8. Working hard to completion, we’re now at v0.91. Here are some of the latest pictures of the continually evolving “Iron Man” test guitar (click to zoom. It’s still a test guitar so you see all the battle scars, dings scratches and all :-)…): Keeping …
Another milestone… The Ascend VPU plugin, the virtual pickups software I’ve been working on, is now at v0.9. Soon, we will be in beta. By then, I’ll need to work with a few courageous souls out there to test it out, suggest patches for presets, etc. Tell me if you are interested! Alas, I’ll have …
Playing around with Infinity, now at v0.8… Nu-6 plus Infinity drivers set at level 0.5 (max 1.0). Clean, with a bit of EQ, compression and slight reverb. Playing clean with infinite polyphonic sustain takes time to get used to. The strings want to be unleashed, and I have to be very careful with damping. Maybe …
Allow me to introduce Ascend. As mentioned in my previous post, the Infinity project spun off into two parts. The hardware part will keep the name “Infinity“ while the software part is renamed “Ascend”. The software component, a few years in the making (on and off as time permits), originated from my original Virtual Pickups …
The Infinity project is my holy grail. If you just tuned in recently, you might ask what is that? Well, In a nutshell: “Polyphonic sustain, plus extensive processing for each string, will give us musicians full control over the dynamics of the guitar”. Like in many engineering project, from concept to implementation, requirements kept changing and …
My holy grail… It’s been on the back burner for far too long since after its inception in 2014, giving priority to other projects such as the XR and Modula. Now, I decided to give it some focus. And so I’m pleased to present a more-or-less refined prototype. It’s about time! It’s not yet perfect, but we’re …
This D string was driving my pitch detector nuts. It’s jumping from fundamental to octave and back all over the place. Can’t make up its mind! The effect is like a wacko version of Satch with a whammy pedal gone haywire. What the hell am I talking about? Last month, I wrote about a fast and efficient software …
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