Not really a DXi or Vst, but....

Here are a few pic's of my modified Variax, now able to use The Roland VG-88, GR-33, GI-20 etc etc and so on... The right switch is a GK2a kill switch. The left switch allows midi program changes, and the added pot (in the center) is the volume for the Gk2a pickup...

Enjoy!

Mikey




http://www.instituteofnoise.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10239

A nice job there!I can see where that would make a fun controller(a Jackson with an ancient-tech GK-1/GM-70 here)
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Bloody 'ell. I wouldn't dare do that to mine.

Wouldnt, or couldnt Phaedo?

Really no biggy- you just have to be careful with the drilling, and electronics arnt that difficult to install... And, it opens up a whole nother area of use now for the guitar... Of course I agree, if you not into that 13 pin playing softsynths with the guitar midi thing, it's not worth the trouble involved.... I am, and so it was...

MIDI guitar is something I'd like to get into, but I'm not sure I want to perform radical surgery as a first stop...

Oh, I forgot to say. Very cool, btw.

friggin really cool.. i'd buy it from you if i had money... or pay you to do it for me.. again.. if i had money.. actually.. if i had money.. i might just buy some food instead.

That is sweet beyond words!!

Thanks guys for the kind words...

I have uploaded 2 small mp3's, to show you how she sounds...

A Variax modeled D28 acoustic (played thru a Vetta 2 using a modified "Identical Twins" patch), and VG-88 Organ (played thru the VG-88 ), played at the same time with one guitar.... Only DAW effect used was a fade at the start and end.

http://members.cox.net/spikey3/MP3/D28and%20VG88-Organ.mp3

A little slide diddy, from the VG-88 only, played with the Variax thru the gk2a hex pup...

http://members.cox.net/spikey3/MP3/slide-VG88.mp3

Enjoy!

Mikey

Now, that's a truly layered sound.

Something bothers me: shouldn't it be possible to just take an output from the Variax's transducer?

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Something bothers me: shouldn't it be possible to just take an output from the Variax's transducer?

Yes, on a normal guitar with normal pickups you could. The Variax is anything but normal in this dept, and it requires a "stereo" cable with one side of it used for the power of the active electronics inside. So- the power/audio cable "has" to be there, and since its pickup free there is no induced voltage for the gk interface to pick signal off of. I tried going from the output wires of the Variax and directly into the audio input of the VG-88 with it (thru the gk interface) and could not get a sound, so- there has to be something done to the audio from inside the switch/power box that comes with the Variax is all I can figure... Since the Variax has to have the power/audio cable anyway for operation, I just run two cables and consider it no biggy...

Now, I may be talking crap here (it wouldn't be the first time ) but as I understand it, there's a perfectly good hexaphonic pickup on the Variax, but their wiring doesn't allow you to create an out for it. Is that right?