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Steel guitar amplifiers, effects, etc.

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Dave Van Allen
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Post by Dave Van Allen »

Thank you Peewee!!!!! I always thought it was a miracle ANYBODY ever bothered to make a MIDI interface for steel, and now I know it was due to one persistent fellow....
too bad there wasn't a market for it (besides you and me and a handful of other guys)...

Steelers are already a niche market, and when you segment that further into the ones adventurous enough to try the newfangled MIDI thing no wonder IVL couldn't keep it up...

Bruce Meyer
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Post by Bruce Meyer »

I'd be willing to put some time and maybe even some money into an effort to support Mike Brewer and/or others to get a new Midi unit produced.

Two requirements: it needs to be an organized, realistic effort and it needs to have a leader (other than me) with skills and time to devote.
Dan Tyack
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Post by Dan Tyack »

I have an entire 'guitarorchestra' setup. Does this thing use the IVL pickup? I've had it for a few years and stuck it in the closet due to the issues that Earnest refers to. I was interested in recording piano/organ parts, but I found that a) it was easier for me to pick out the parts on a keyboard than to make it do what I wanted, and b) I found that I greatly prefer the sound of 'analogue' instruments (e.g. acoustic piano or B3) to even the very best sound modules I tried.

Anyway, if anybody is interested in this system I'd be glad to part with it. It includes the pickup (IVL???), converters, sound module (Roland something or other) and all the manuals. I guess I'll post this on buy and sell. For the right person, this would be an awesome system, but I just found it too frustrating to use, and the results not all that interesting (to me).

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