Sevenstring MIDI pickup?

Hawksmoor · 11-26-2006, 06:21 AM

Do they exist?
I fell in love with the sounds from a GR30, but GK2A pickups only seem to fit 6 strings.
What are the options for 7's?

Bassies7string · 11-26-2006, 06:38 AM

None as far as i know. The thing is that 16 pin systems as the GR30 are soley developed for 6 strings. The only way to add more strings is to double the system. That's wat tapping guitar guys do, they drive two units.

just my 2 cents.

Hawksmoor · 11-26-2006, 07:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bassies7string

None as far as i know. The thing is that 16 pin systems as the GR30 are soley developed for 6 strings. The only way to add more strings is to double the system. That's wat tapping guitar guys do, they drive two units.

just my 2 cents.

Either that or using it on 6 strings only
Sigh, it was too good to be true.

darren · 11-26-2006, 10:28 AM

I believe you can get 7-string piezo MIDI systems from GraphTech and RMC. The problem isn't so much the pickup: All of the guitar-to-MIDI converters are only designed for six strings. So even if you get a seven-string pickup, you need to figure out how to translate all seven strings into MIDI signals.

One option might be to tune your seventh string to A and have it just track in parallel to the fifth string.

jlagoon · 11-27-2006, 12:59 AM

Just use the 6 string version. I have bought a GR20 with the GK3 pickup recently.

Here's a fact about the system: during the pickup installation, I placed the pickup the wrong way vertically, i.e. the yoke (the pole pieces) that is supposed to track the 1st string was tracking the 6th string, and the one that is supposed to track the 6th stirng was tracking the 1st string. I placed it the wrong way, because I thought that the cable from the pickup to the remote unit and the extended part of the pickup with a screw would get in the way.

Anyway, I tried it that way, and the tracking was all over the place. I reversed the pickup (installing it correctly), and the tracking was fine.

darren · 11-27-2006, 08:06 AM

Well, of course the tracking is going to be all over the place if the pickup is upside down! It's a hexaphonic pickup, and the system expects the first sensor to be picking up the first string, not the sixth. You can't just arbitrarily flip it around. RTFM!

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Bassies7string ss.org Regular Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Utrecht, Netherlands Posts: 112 Main Seven: S7320 Rig: Blackface Chameleon Thanked: 0	None as far as i know. The thing is that 16 pin systems as the GR30 are soley developed for 6 strings. The only way to add more strings is to double the system. That's wat tapping guitar guys do, they drive two units. just my 2 cents.

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darren Is Always Right™ Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Greater Toronto Area, Canada Posts: 6,828 Main Seven: OMFG! EBMM JP7 Rig: GT6PowerBlockThiele Thanked: 28	I believe you can get 7-string piezo MIDI systems from GraphTech and RMC. The problem isn't so much the pickup: All of the guitar-to-MIDI converters are only designed for six strings. So even if you get a seven-string pickup, you need to figure out how to translate all seven strings into MIDI signals. One option might be to tune your seventh string to A and have it just track in parallel to the fifth string.

11-27-2006, 12:59 AM	#5 (permalink)
jlagoon ss.org Regular Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: NY Posts: 169 Main Seven: RG7321 Rig: TriAxis + VHT2502 Thanked: 0	Just use the 6 string version. I have bought a GR20 with the GK3 pickup recently. Here's a fact about the system: during the pickup installation, I placed the pickup the wrong way vertically, i.e. the yoke (the pole pieces) that is supposed to track the 1st string was tracking the 6th string, and the one that is supposed to track the 6th stirng was tracking the 1st string. I placed it the wrong way, because I thought that the cable from the pickup to the remote unit and the extended part of the pickup with a screw would get in the way. Anyway, I tried it that way, and the tracking was all over the place. I reversed the pickup (installing it correctly), and the tracking was fine.

11-27-2006, 08:06 AM	#6 (permalink)
darren Is Always Right™ Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Greater Toronto Area, Canada Posts: 6,828 Main Seven: OMFG! EBMM JP7 Rig: GT6PowerBlockThiele Thanked: 28	Well, of course the tracking is going to be all over the place if the pickup is upside down! It's a hexaphonic pickup, and the system expects the first sensor to be picking up the first string, not the sixth. You can't just arbitrarily flip it around. RTFM!


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