Blue Chip Music Technology AX-100 User's Manual

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

TEST

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.

TEST

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.