Hi guys,
Earlier today I bought the Guitar Wing. Let me say thank you first. I've been waiting for something like this for at least five years. Finally, someone has built it and my first hour or so playing with it was rather pleasant. The first thing I did was update the firmware which worked flawlessly and now I can connect to my iPad and Mac Mini without the dongle. Now I can finally get rid of that ugly annoying usb hub! The editor seems to be really well made too. Well done!
Now, I do have a few questions and an urgent feature request:
1. My main electric guitar is a Fender Jeff Beck custom from the early nineties. This is a guitar with a thick body. It's about 47mm deep. The wiki states the GW can accommodate guitars up to 45mm and seeing the GW arm bend on my guitar worries me a bit. How stable is this thing? Am I risking permanent damage?
2. What I'd really like to do is fit the GW on an acoustic guitar so I'm thinking about modding the clamp. How difficult would that be? Do you have suggestions as to how to go about this? Does the bulky end of the clamp contain the battery? What about the cable? If this doesn't work I'd even consider buying another guitar. I so want to love the GW ;-)
3. Is there a way to check on the battery charge? If not, what's the best way to deal with the battery (when to charge, for how long)?
4. Here's my urgent feature request: could you please add a way to use the big pads as standard momentary cc buttons (on = 127, off = 0). I want to use the pads as function triggers with a software that doesn't let me assign midi noteon messages to those functions. I think I'm not the only one who would find this useful and it would be easy to implement.
That's all, thanks again for building this thing and I'm looking forward to some suggestions.
Cheers,
Lutz
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New Guitar Wing user - comments and questions
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