Anyone using MIDI guitar with Sonar 8?

Anyone on here using a MIDI pickup/interface with a guitar to control vsts in Sonar 8?

I am planning on buying a setup.. any experience/advice?

That is the same type of setup I am looking at! GODIN and the AXON. Cool.

jkleban


Yup,

Been using a MIDI guitar with Sonar for over 10 years... started out with a ROLAND interface... switched over to a AXON 50... NIGHT AND DAY... the Axon is the way to go.

I also have a GODIN LA guitar with the builtin MIDI pickup...

Together, they work like a charm.

I've been using the Roland GI-20 interface + GK-3 pickup with numerous problems due to controller messages from each string while in Mono six string mode. Setting the GI-20 up is a real headache and it doesn't play nice with several soft synths or other Midi devices I use. Read the Crgs VS 700 thread.
Here again is another testimonial stating the Axon's are the way to go. 

jkleban


Yup,

Been using a MIDI guitar with Sonar for over 10 years... started out with a ROLAND interface... switched over to a AXON 50... NIGHT AND DAY... the Axon is the way to go.

I also have a GODIN LA guitar with the builtin MIDI pickup...

Together, they work like a charm.

i gave up using my roland gr1 as a controller-is the axon 50 just an interface?-thats all i really need

I will probably end up getting the 50

The HUGE thing to consider is the pickup.  The BOTTOM LINE when it comes to midi guitar is to make sure you get a controller that senses the string at the bridge fulcrum (piezo pickup).  The hardest thing for a Guitar-to-midi interface to do is to decipher the fundamental root note from the harmonics.  The piezo pickups help with this tremendously.  Anything with a hex pickup under the strings (like Roland GK-series) will always leave you with lackluster results.

I have a Godin LGX-SA that tracks like lightning through both my GI-20 and Axon50.  L.R. Baggs (what Line6 Variax uses), RMC piezos (what Godin uses) and the new Graphtech Ghost pickup system are all phenomenally fast.

As far as the modules:  I bought the Axon50 thinking there might be improvement in the low E string response, but there was no improvement at all.   I would just go with best price here.

I've seen folks have great results with both hex pickups and piezo pickups. I keep thinking about getting a piezo guitar, and then I see Pat Metheny still using the GK pickups. I think it's mostly a matter of technique and proper pickup adjustment.

Hmmm - The Axon must be transmitting something when you're changing presets, which is being processed by Dim Pro. Shouldn't be a problem with Dim Pro. Maybe use MIDI-OX to see what is being sent by the Axon so you can filter it out, or see of there is a setting on the Axon to prevent it from sending program changes (or whatever it's sending).