MIDI Guitar 2 Beta 14

All sound you hear in this video is from built-in patches in MIDI Guitar 2. BETA14.MIDI Guitar 2, BETA14 and more...MIDI Guitar 2 BETA 14 is now available to customers. It's a big update with a new user interface and lots of new modules and features.

Lately, Dutch guitarist Paul Driessen has joined the Jam Origin team and Paul is developing a new family of Deep guitar effects, which are like traditional guitar effects, yet something totally new. Deep guitar effects rely on our underlying tracking technology for profound new ways to change your tone with no loss of expressiveness and zero latency.

Two Deep effects are included: a harmonic EQ and a versatile new effect called Deep Expressor which offers sustain without compression, per string compression, transient/pluck control, clean hex distortion and direct harmonic access via drawbars! And we are really only just scratching the surface with Deep guitar effects here - you'll see a lot more on this front in the future.

The best way to get started is try out the new default patches. Here is a demo of Drawbar Rock. The organ is held with a sustain pedal but you can simply use spacebar if you don't have a physical MIDI pedal setup.

BETA14 also marks the end of the BETA testing phase. It is now feature complete and we will now focus on fixing any last bugs reported, user interface tweaks and getting the official release out as soon as we possibly can, possibly in February. Please let us know if you experience unexpected behavior. New bugs may have arisen as there are so many changes, but we'll sort it out in a timely manner. You can reply to this email.

MIDI Bass will be updated as well within a few days.
What's New:

• New: All new responsive user interface avoiding modal dialogs
• New: Full screen mode and resizable window with adjustable font sizes and colour contrasts
• New: Deep Harmonic EQ effect – the first of our Deep series of effects offers direct acces to the strings harmonics with drawbars.
• New: Deep Expressor effect –  offers sustain without compression, compression per string, transient/pluck control, clean hex distortion and direct harmonic access via drawbars!
• New: Accurate Tube and Solid-State preamp models (thanks to Matthieu Brucher/AudioTK)
• New: Overdrive effect (based on the famous yellow overdrive pedal)
• New: Screamer effect (based on the famous green screamer pedal)
• New: Convolution reverb generator
• New: Sync control to synchronise your guitartone with the instrument tone
• New: Sampler built in. SFZ sample banks simply appear as “instruments”
• New: MIDI Legato – via MIDI note overlap
• New: MIDI Sustain for flexible foot-controlled piano-sustain/hold function
• New: MIDI Transpose for foot controller/velocity-based/fixed transposing
• New: MIDI Bassline for splitting bass notes and play your own backing
• New: MIDI Arpeggiator
• New: MIDI Monitor
• New: Lots of new built-in patches!
• New: Use spacebar as a poor mans expression/sustain pedal
• New: Plugin scanner has “fast” and “safe” scan options
• New: Add single plugin file
• New: Select input channel for external midi inputs
• New: Search in plugin dialogs by typing any keyboard sequence
• New: Default patches and midimachines can be restored via preferences
• New: JamOrigin data folder and log can be opened via preferences
   
• Fixed: Plugin scanner has longer timeout for plugins on slow disks
• Fixed: Pitch Bend Range slider was sometimes disabled
• Fixed: Don’t clear plugin list from MIDI Guitar 1
• Fixed: Pass on CC64 sustain to synths
• Fixed: Various minor issues
   
• Old Macs: The 32-bit standalone application for Mac is no longer included in the Mac distribution (if you really need this, let us know), but a new legacy version for MacOSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard) is available.

Download:Customers: Run any previous version of MIDI Guitar 2 to get an update notification and submit your email, right when it starts up.
Non-customers: A new trial version will be available February.
 More Information:  jamorigin.comThank you very much for your support!

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Jam Origin

Wow!! That looks like a serious update.
 
Dan, have you had a chance to test this out yet?

Yeah, I also won't be able to test it until later tonight, but do like what I see. I think it's time I got one of those dampeners/fret wraps.

King_Windom
OK so I just had about 20 min to play with this. Great interface, very easy to get going with this version. I did not even have to tweak the tracking, it just worked. I fooled around with some Synthmaster sounds...as always great fun. The new effects look good. The Deep Expressor has a lot of potential but I will need time to play with it. Thats about all I had time for now but this release is a real winner. 
Mesh  I think you are right about the dampners, will have to try them.

The Deep Expressor is also what caught my attention in that list....
 
Regardng dampeners, this guy on youtube said Doubled-sided Velcro works very well and extremely cheap. I might try that first before spending the $30 on fret wrap/Gruv Gear.
 
 

Great ideas to avoid $30 expense. I have some velcro wire ties that I bet are long enough to go around my guitar neck. I may have enough to have one for each guitar ( I doubt I have THAT many). Will try that later and not have to sacrifice a dew rag.

I see a court date coming up.

bapu
Updated last night.

Ditto that!!
This weekend will be a midi-fest.........I mean test.
 

I'm really liking this new version. I made a video that goes over some of the new features such as the Deep FX. Feel free to check it out if you're interested.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGTMgnmhEHA
 
[tube]https://youtu.be/TGTMgnmhEHA[/tube]
 
 
 
 

Thanks