I used to have a Casio ng380 guitar and used it to change effects via midi. It is the guitar from the late 80s and early 90s that has midi out and actually does the analog to midi onboard the guitar. It has buttons on the guitar itself to change patches and also changes to different effects. Worked great for me cause had a midi guitar processor that had all of those effects in it and just a press of a button switched it to anything I wanted. Of course, the draw back is that you have to stop playing in order to press the button where with a footswitch you don't have to reach down. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom De Rosa To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:35 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: some opinions Mark, I'm a guitar player and song writer and looking to go live. Your comments about setting the guitar to a mid and not having to stomp on the foot peddles is something I would love to figure out. Could you give a better idea as to how your doing this. For example, going to using corous to distortion or clean to distortion in the same song without looking for the stomp box? Tom DeRosa URL www.myspace.com/tder08 ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Burroughs To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 9:02 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: some opinions Sorry Omar. I was coming at it from a lead singer/guitarist with other band member's perspective. If you are running your Motif through a board with your vocal; whether it is just you/or a full band, I would think that would be great. Rock on. Mark From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Omar Binno Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 7:05 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: some opinions All this can be done from within the motif, though. I had no plans for using any mp3's at all; only midi sequences. Perhaps I should be more specific. Would it be more beneficial to use a laptop and sonar on stage rather than just the motif to run/play the midi sequences? I tend to think that the motif alone should be fine, but if anyone can think of any advantages of playing the sequences through a laptop and sonar, with the motif only as a sound generator, please share. Thanks again. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Burroughs To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 8:01 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: some opinions Let's see.. A few random thoughts about midi vs. MP3 on stage. If the bass player is sick; you just unmute the bass. grin Or perhaps a traveling piano player wants to gig with you between shows at the Met. mute the piano and let him jam. Or maybe you realize that you are getting too old to remember the words, so you add some cheater lines to a track that only goes in your monitor, just prior to the start of each verse/chorus and when the solo should start. How cool is it to set the volume and effect controls through midi for the guitar, so all you have to do is play and sing? Not repeatedly stomp on your midi control foot pedal like you are looking for your lost glass slide or guitar picks on the floor? Just try adding the four above scenarios to an MP3? I dunnno, Sonar's playlist makes anything possible. guffaw. Love to set it for five seconds between songs, so the music almost seems constant to the audience. You can also do multiple midi tracks with a group of three songs that are similar with no break in between; to keep em dancing. It's always better if you can have the 9 fellow musicians to play on stage with you, but how realistic is that? I did good keeping a drummer, bass player and a female vocalist that played acoustic together for three years. I've spent the last two only doing studio work, learning Sonar, and hoping I can get a good mix of original songs, so that I can get out of the totally cover song band scene. I agree with John that having versatility in being able to tweak your songs is a huge plus. Good luck though with whatever works for you. You have to feel comfortable with your gear and audio. You are the one using it. Mark From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Fioravanti Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 5:39 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: some opinions Hi: The advantage to midi, if you consider it an advantage, is that you can edit it if you find that certain parts are too loud etc. Once you do an MP3, it's done. Of course, some people here use them and it's probably the best way to go. But midi is easier to change once you've heard it on stage. John ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Hillebrandt To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 6:21 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: some opinions I can see a lot of advantages in having a laptop on stage but understand what you mean in regards to the pc doing all of the work. I would like to take that just a step further as wonder why some choose to have computers play drum machines and synths via midi rather than simply recording the parts and playing along to an mp3. I realize some do that as well but just wondering the advantage of using the midi verses recording parts and making an mp3 out of it to play with. Would think that having extra midi stuff would take up more room than an mp3 player if you aren't actually playing all of the parts. Thanks for any input as curious to hear opinions. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Wicketts To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 11:05 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: some opinions Hi Omar, I personally don't like lap tops on stage. People see a computer and instantly think that the computer is doing all of the work. On all songs, I put 1 bar of drum hits or rhythm for my personal recognition just so I know straight away which song is set up, this way the audience don't suddenly hear a familiar beginning of a recognisable song. Steve W ----- Original Message ----- From: Omar Binno To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 2:47 PM Subject: [ddots-l] some opinions Hello, I'm going to start gigging live soon and wanted to hear some thoughts. I'll be using a Motif ES6 to play midi sequences. My question is: if my band performs around 30 songs a night, would it be more efficient to just use the motif's playback capabilities to run the sequenced files, or would it be more beneficial to use a laptop to handle the operation? Thank you for all input. OMAR BINNO WEBSITE: www.bigoproductions.net AIM: LOD1116 SKYPE: obinno1 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6485 (20110922) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com