I built the MIDI guitar whilst studying Musical Instrument Technology at London Guildhall University. After completing my course I was asked to provide a demonstration of the guitar at the Department's Christmas gig. Fellow graduate and self-confessed shredder, David Spector, was planning to give the last of his annual performances at this gig. Feeling that David's superior guitar skills would do better justice to the capabilities of the MIDI guitar I persuaded him to use the instrument for his own set. For my contribution I provided the guitar/MIDI kit along with some tuition in its use and general technical assistance. The resultant solo performance by David Spector took place in December, 1999 and used no instruments other than the single MIDI guitar. No pre-recorded backing tracks or drum machine patterns of any kind were used. Where backing tracks were needed, these were recorded, looped and played back to audience in real-time using Logic Audio. All of the instruments that can be heard in the recordings are as played during the live performance. David now plays his own MIDI enabled guitar.

Warwick C.

In order performed:

1. Adagio - solo with chord accompaniment based on Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor. Uses G50 in multi-channel mode with sustain pedal in Hold 1 mode
   
   
2. Piano Solo - Impromptu solo using G50 in single-channel mode
   
   
3. On The Fly - "One man band" style including "normal" guitar sounds.

The equipment used (excluding PA) was:

Hand-built solid-bodied, electric guitar with active circuitry, floating bridge and Roland GK-2A hex pickup

Yamaha G50 Guitar-MIDI interface with FC5 pedal

E-MU ESI-32 sampler

Roland JP8080 synthesiser

RFX Midiwizard floor-pedal MIDI controller

Pentium PC running Emagic Logic Audio

Guitar multi-FX unit Drum/rhythm machine

Please note:

1. You may download these files for your own personal use (i.e. as a demonstration of MIDI guitar capabilities) only. You may copy to fixed or removable media for use on your own local computer system and you may also copy to audio/hi-fi media. Unless you obtain explicit permission (contact) you may not use these these files for commercial purposes and they must not be made available to the general public by any means other than through the provision of an Internet link to this website.
   
   
2. The recordings are offered as mp3 files with a 96 Kb/s bitrate - this being considered to provide the minimum sound quality sufficient for demonstration purposes. Better quality recordings and other formats are available upon request (using contact link below).
   
   
3. Files are reproduced here by kind permission of David Spector.

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