Questions: Direct to Digital Pickup

by Brian Stewart

Originally published in American Lutherie #76, 2003

Joel A. Anderson, Port Allegheny, PA asks:

I have a computer program called Finale for Guitar. It permits me to enter notes and chords from the guitar directly into the computer by using the keyboard. I am looking for a MIDI pickup for my guitar so I can play a note or a chord and it will go directly into the computer in a digital format. Do you know of such a pickup?

Brian Stewart of Blue Springs, MO answers:

Roland manufactures the GK-2AH for guitar, the GK-2B for bass, and the GK-KIG-GT for permanent installation into a guitar. I have played a Godin Multiac nylon with the RMC electronics MIDI pickup through a Roland GR-33 guitar processor that worked great. The web addresses are: www.rolandus.com; www.california.com/~bwagon/rmc2.htm. ◆