On 3 jan 2007, at 19.40, Steven Rowat wrote: > Suggestion: Maybe some day the engineers will invent some sort of > system that could use the length of the string, rather than > frequency, to calculate what the note is. Then the software wouldn't > need to wait for 1/2 the wavelength to appear. It could be calculated > the same way for each note on each string and hopefully be almost > instantaneous. Good thinking! But these ideas are not new. There are already guitar instruments that work similarly to this. But not for MIDI, they all run their own built-in synths. I recall the very first synth guitar put out by Roland which I played occasionally and it had practically not more latency than the air between your ears and a traditional guitar amp beside you. I think the "Synth Axe", or whatever it was called, also used measuring of the distance from the nut to the string touch point. I own a MIDI guitar, but I never play timing critical electronic instrument sounds with it. I either play slow sounds or I layer the real guitar pickup output sound together with the electronic instrument sound. For timing critical MIDI playing I use an EWI. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) http://www.myspace.com/looproom