Doepfer

Aside from Digital Ear and the other software converters, I think 
the only current production hardware is the guitar synth stuff from 
Roland, Yamaha and Axon. LVI in Canada (they make the Electrix 
stuff) used to license their Pitchrider technology (You might be 
able to find a Pitchrider 4000 on ebay) but they were never know 
for being terribly fast to respond. Axon claims to be the 
fastest using neural nets, haven't tried one and not sure they're 
actually still available. There was a rumor that the Digitech Vocalist 
would incorporate pitch-to-midi, since its basically already done in 
that box and just needs a midi out socket, but I don't think this ever 
happened.

I suspect it might be tough for Doepfer to develop a pitch-to-midi 
module, but perhaps if the requirements aren't so stringent as they 
are for other applications it might be possible to develop or license 
what's needed.

--- In Doepfer_a100@y..., "Andreas Lindholm" <andreas.k.lindholm@t...> 
wrote:
> It's not a bad idea at all, in fact I tried some gear back in the 
80ies to
> allow me to whistle in my tunes, but I found them unrelieable and 
learned
> the piano instead. So perhaps things have improoved a lot but pitch 
to midi
> isn't an easy task to get done right so I suppose it would be a 
costly
> module. That's why I am doubtful cause I don't expect it to be as 
flawless
> as I'd like and cost to much. Anybody know of a good pitch to midi 
device
> that works realtime and not on old samples?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "bakis Sirros" <synth_freak_2000@y...>
> 
> > users!imagine what it would be like to be able to
> > actually PLAY the a100 vco's with a violin or a guitar
> > or any other acoustic instrument...or,even better,have
> > the a100 vco's "play" non pitched sounds like
> > drums/percussion and go nuts!so...what do you say?is
> > the pitch to cv/gate/midi converter a very special
> > module or what? ;-)