The MIDI-Connection for all Kind of Guitars
The MIDI-Connection for all Kind of Guitars
Electric, Acoustic, Western, Bass Guitars
With the advent of the AXON, all guitars,
whether acoustic, electric, western, bass,
classical, have now become full members
of the MIDI family. The AXON reacts as
fast when playing external sound modules
as it does when playing its own optional
internal sound board. For guitarists is this
the beginning of a new era.
Pick it all up
Whether electric guitar or
acoustic, whether classical
guitar or bass – the AXON is
there for them all. Even
instruments with nylon or gut
strings using piezo-pickup
systems (pickups described
on the back of this brochure).
Bass guitars
with 4 or 6
strings,
classical
guitars with
10.5 or 11.5
mm gaps – for
bass string
nylon/gut string
steel string
every kind of guitar the
AXON offers a solution.
MIDI recording
This is where the AXON shows its true
colors. Totally separate MIDI
signals for each string instead of the
MIDI salad that comes from most
other converters make professional or
home recordings now possible. You
can now take advantage of the myriad
Let’s Split
Guitaristic virtuosity means mastering the entire technical spectrum.
Quick changes between bass notes
and high solistic melodies give the
guitar its flexible ability. Not a
problem with the AXON and it’s
string splits and fret splits. Various
sounds or timbres can be assigned
to the different split areas. You can
for example assign a bass guitar
sound to the lower strings and
maybe a sax or distortion guitar
sound to the upper solo strings,
and then for the middle fret split a
piano or twelve-string sound. The
AXON offers a variety of split possibilities that, in combination with
each other, divide the play area of
your guitar into various segments
according to string and fret splits and
pick position. Unbelievable possibilities that you have to try to believe!
of possibilities of multi-track
recording, music-page-layout and
printing, digital saves and data
transport via CD-ROM or via the
Internet.
It’s a new era for guitarists with the
AXON.
String Split
Fret Split
Pick
Split
Pick Control
For Your
For Your
Love
Love
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Electronic Musician
Electronic Musician
1998
Editors’
Choise
Award
The AXON deserves praise
not only for its MIDI conversion but also for its ability to
adapt to guitarists’ individual
playing styles.
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As far as pitch recognition,
the AXON sets the standard!
Best Western
If “Country Roads” or
“Blueberry Hill” are a
part of your repertoire,
you will never again need
to switch guitars – just MIDI
channels. Choose a sound
module, synth or sampler
with your favorite country
sounds and play them on your
guitar. You can also use a banjo, ukulele or acoustic guitar.
You won’t have to change to
another instrument to get the
sounds you want.
MIDI Bass
MIDI for bass guitar has
long been thought impossible. The low frequency (pitch) of the
notes played as well as
the time it takes for a string
to fully resonate have caused MIDI
interpretation to have such time
delays that it has not been viable
at all – until now. The AXON has
solved the problem! Now bass guitarists can use the full spectrum of
their instrument’s technique to play
MIDI sounds. The possibilities go
beyond a bassist’s wildest dreams.
You can now combine the sounds
of your bass that sounds the best
with the bass you like to play the
best. You can play an acoustic bass
on your electric bass, or a Fender
bass sound on your Rickenbacher.
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As far as pitch recognition,
the AXON sets the standard!
“Good buy” ... sets a new
standard that the competition
will have to address in the
future.
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Fast response; clever split
options; tracks well; flexible!
Sounds Overboard
With the optional sound board SB-676,
you are equipped with a wealth of onboard sounds and rhythms. Of course,
you can connect your AXON (even
without the sound board) to virtually
any MIDI capable sound module or
synth with no difference at all in
performance.
The most popular
synths, sound
modules, samplers,
expanders as well as
MIDI pianos, organs,
computers with sound
boards (or anything else that generates
sounds) are now available to you as a
guitarist/bassist. The AXON is as fast
using external devices as it is using its
internal sound board.
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The AXON AX 100 sets a
new standard in tracking and
flexibility. It is finally
possible for guitarists to play
in real time, even on the
lower strings.
Special Effects
Using the modulation wheel on
the guitar interface as well as the
pick control function, which registers the actual position of your
right hand over the string. The
AXON makes it possible to send
every type of CC message directly
from your guitar by varying your
picking position. In addition, you
can use two expression pedals
and two foot switches to control
hold functions and sequences.
Effects such as reverb, chorus and
vibrato can be combined with volume, tremolo and such exotic
parameters as filter cutoff, autowah and more. You can also control program change and the actual
selection of sounds using your
onboard mod wheel or pick position. These facts alone make for
the most alive and dynamic guitar
you’ve ever played.
The AXON AX 100-SB with its
internal sound board offers you a
practical alternative at an excellent
value. A wide variety of quality sounds
are available to you as guitarist/bassist.
You, your guitar and the AXON AX
100-SB are all you need for incredible
live performances.
Extra Hands
The AXON’s built in arpeggiator is
perhaps one of the most innovative
developments of modern music
technology. A simple chord is
metamorphasized into an explosion
of notes played in sequence, either in
the order that you played them or
octavized, or repeated in a controllable,
rhythmical sequence. Up to 16 notes
(and rests) can be played in one
arpeggio. On-stage, you play a chord
and let the AXONs' arpeggiator do its'
magic. The results are unbelievable!
Guitar to MIDI controller
AX 100 (SB) Features
Extremely fast tracking
Pick Position recognition
Functional with steel string, bass or nylon string
128 editable presets
12 play area zones (segments)
Programmable foot switches (Hold and preset)
Arpeggiator with editable rhythmical sequence patterns
32 editable chain presets
Programmable wheel control
2 Programmable expression pedals inputs
Built in tuner
GLOBAL UTIL
CHAIN
PARAMETER
NEURAL GUITAR MIDI CONTROLLER
LEVEL
MONO MONO
GUITAR
INPUT
13 POLE IN
AX 100
SIGNAL +6 db - MIC
E-GUITAR / CONCERT GUITAR / BASS
MAG. / PIEZO
ENTER
POWER
+
-
BLUECHIP
music technology
+
-
ON / OFF
EXIT
EDIT
STORE
PRESET
VALUE
AXON AX 100 (Magnetic/Piezo/Arpeggiator) includes:
32 Bit RISC processor
6x18 bit A/D converters
13-conductor jack from guitar interface
variable MONO-input for microphone
2X16 character LCD screen with back lighting
2 Audio out put jacks for the optional sound card
SB Models
480 Sounds
32 editable synth patches
200 wave forms
11 reverbs, 11 choruses, 42 variation effects
3 simultaneous effects
Guitar to MIDI converter, power supply, foot switch, MIDI cable, owners manual
GLOBAL UTIL
CHAIN
PARAMETER
NEURAL GUITAR MIDI CONTROLLER
LEVEL
MONO MONO
GUITAR
INPUT
13 POLE IN
AX 100
SIGNAL +6 db - MIC
E-GUITAR / CONCERT GUITAR / BASS
MAG. / PIEZO
ENTER
POWER
+
-
BLUECHIP
music technology
+
-
ON / OFF
EXIT
PRESET
VALUE
EDIT
STORE
AXON AX 100-SB (Magnetic/Piezo/Arpeggiator) includes:
Guitar to MIDI converter including an internal sound board, power supply, foot switch,
MIDI cable, owners manual
SOUNDBOARD SB-676
Equips the AXON with 480/676 sounds, 11/21 drum kits, 11 reverbs, 11 choruses,
32 voice polyphony
FOOTSWITCH
13 pol. cable
Interface / AXON
1,5 m
GUITAR INTERFACE AIX-101
Interface for the steel stringed guitars. Features include MIDI volume, up/down preset
buttons, three position toggle switch for synth only, guitar and synth and guitar only
playing, 13 pin connector out-put jack
BASS INTERFACE AIX-103
Interface for the steel stringed bass guitars. Features include MIDI volume, up/down
preset buttons, three position toggle switch for synth only, guitar and synth and guitar
only playing, 13 pin connector out-put jack
HEX PIEZO PICKUP SYSTEM
6 separate piezo pickups (one for each string) built into one bridge. For installation on
acoustic and nylon string classical guitars. When ordering this, please provide the exact
information regarding the type of guitar and exact measurements for the pickup.
INTERFACE BOARD AIX-110
The interface board can be installed in virtually every acoustic and half acoustic guitar.
Optionally you can have the up/down preset buttons, MIDI volume control and 1/4" jack
and MIDI volume control installed.
INTERFACE BOARD FOR THE GODIN GUITARS AIX-210
This interface board is a direct replacement board for the LGX and MULTIAC circuits.
6 m
13-CONDUCTOR CABLE AXK-100
This cable is for connecting the AXON to the pickup interface.
FOOT SWITCH AFT-100
This is the pedal to control the HOLD and CHAIN functions.
EXPRESSION PEDAL AFS-100
These expression pedals connected to the CV inputs. The AX 100 supports two AFS100 pedals.
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Guitar to MIDI controller
Guitar goes MIDI
As long as there has been MIDI, there
have been guitarists attempting to tap
into that fantasy world of sounds and
expressions. Most of these attempts
ended in frustration and failure due
to the lack of a
pitch recognition
system that was
precise enough
and more importantly fast
enough to keep
up with a guitarist’s technique and
the massive amounts of sound infor-
Early-recognition system
Früherkennungsimpuls
sound
for pitch recognition to begin, regardless of technology or method used.
And so ends the story of the first MIDI
controllers that were always frustra-
Plucking the string
Enter Blue Chip Music. Engineers at
Blue Chip have successfully developed an early recognition system
that analyses the impulse that occurs
at the very instant a string is played.
This system recognizes the pitch of a
string before it fully vibrates. Dynamics and length are then computed
as the string continues to sound.
Analog Digital Conversion
mation to be
translated into
MIDI data. Researchers at Blue
Chip Labs have
revealed that at
the very instant
that a guitar
string sounds, it
is already too late
ting guitarist
with their long
delays on their
MIDI output.
Question: How
can we recognize
the pitch of a
string before it
fully sounds?
filled with all kinds of instruments
(Trumpets, Oboes, Violins, a Clavichord). Over in the corner is a piano,
a violin, a vibraphone and almost any
orchestral instrument imaginable.
Then there’s the electronic department:
Electric guitars and basses with multi
effects, sound modules, analog synths,
workstations, all kinds of keyboards,
even a Hammond B-3.
And here you sit in the middle of it all
with your guitar on your knee and your
AXON in front of you. You’re playing
just like you always do, but the sounds
you hear are all the sounds that you
would have expected to hear from the
other instruments around you. There
is a whole new world of sounds now
available to you as a guitarist. Live via
the Internet you play your ideas for a
friend. Your PC becomes your recording studio that displays the notes you
play on your guitar and allows you to
print them.
You compose,
arrange, direct
and perform in
a new dimension. Live on
stage the
sound that
your audiences hear
comes unrestricted, right
John McLaughlin at Blue Chip
from your mind to their ears, giving
you unparalleled creativity that is sure
to blow them away.
This is “Guitar goes MIDI”. The guitar
is no longer an instrument to be restricted by its analog nature. A new world
is out there waiting to be discovered
by the guitarist and bassist.
Imagine this: You have an entire room
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