7 string Midi guitars?

[odibrom]

My Oni CF8 has 8 string Roland compatible hexaphonic output. It works just as well as any other midi guitar contemporary with it, but you cannot play the highest and lowest strings at the same time. (...)

Please elaborate a little more on this, how is it wired / how does it work?, like only 6 strings work at a time?

 

[c7spheres]

Apparently, with CycFi - https://www.cycfi.com/ one can go crazy. It's kind of a "per costumer" product. They sell breakout boxes that deliver each string individually, so with a nice audio interface with lots of input channels one can go crazy really fast in a computer environment... but ain't cheap for sure...

It says it doesn't do pitch to midi conversion but still it looks fun. You should try it and let us know. You go first. lol. : )

 

[c7spheres]

Please elaborate a little more on this, how is it wired / how does it work?, like only 6 strings work at a time?

Not sure about bostjan's but a lot of them used 2 hexpanders and two 13 pin jacks. I remember seeing Conklin doing it a few times. You set one converter for bass mode like on the Yamaha and Axon's for the lower string.

I wonder how the Acoustiphonc sounds in comparison to the LR baggs preamp for the double edge piezo's though. Right now mine are running on an old Bartolini preamp which I liked better than the LR baggs. It was just a little fatter and more clear sounding but mostly it was nice and quite on the noise floor.

 

[Fox Dieane]

That MIDI system only supports 6 strings guitars, but as for the piezo sounds, you can go with as many strings as you like

I didn't read too much into it, but that's a bummer if true. I remember looking into them a while back and only checked the website when I made my first post and saw the seven saddles and figured they'd updated it to work with 7 strings.

I never pulled the trigger on it, but it seemed like a really cool system if you wanted to put the effort into making it work.

 

[bostjan]

Please elaborate a little more on this, how is it wired / how does it work?, like only 6 strings work at a time?

At any moment, yes. So, for instance, if you play on the low b and high e at the same time, the note will not track, but if you played one then the other just a moment later, it would track both. If you do a lot of walking bass stuff, that could be a problem, but, honestly, it was very rarely an issue for me, to the point where I never really thought about it.

In my old band, I used a Brian Moore 6 string midi guitar into a Roland floor unit, and a regular seven string BCR MB7, so I never considered it necessary to split 8 strings into 2 midi channels. I then started doing more and more stuff at home through a GK13-Midi5 converter (which, ironically, despite being 20% of the price of the Roland, tracked even better).