On Jan 4, 2007, at 7:46 AM, Rich Girard wrote: > Hi, > > Peavey made a bass that had frets that were split, and wired, that > did figure the pitch by knowing what fret and string was being play. They revived that! Cool. Before there was the guitar synth there was the "guitorgan". That's how it worked. > > It also had a separate pick-up for each string to measure velocity, > and a floating bridge that could tell if you were bending a string > and would send pitch bend data.. Interesting approach. > There was (and is) latency because > of the velocity pick-up, but it stayed at a constant 30 ms. Argggg. I guess you could get used to it if you are the kind of bassist plays nothing shorter than quarter notes but... 30ms. Yuck.