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User manual AXON AX-100 / AX-100 SB
AXON AX-100 GUITAR TO MIDI CONVERTER
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About the AXON AX 100 (-SB)
Congratulations on your purchase of the AXON AX 100 (-SB), the
fastest and highest performance Guitar to Midi Converter presently
on the market. The AXON AX 100 represents a new generation of
the NGC 77, which up until now has been the standard for innovative
technology and which has become standard equipment for many pro-
fessional guitarists like John McLaughlin for example. With the
development of the Neural Net System, with its ability to learn your
personal guitar playing style, the AXON AX 100 is capable of
recognizing the exact pitch that you play immediately as you play it,
whereas other converters need several string vibrations for pitch
analysis.
Transient Early Recognition is a process that allows the AXON to
immediately and simultaneously recognize and translate pitch, volume,
and even the pick position of your right hand, a characteristic that is
to date unique to the AXON. This is because of the AXON’s unique
structure of Splits. You can divide the six strings of your guitar into
two separate groups and then assign two separate sounds to those
string groups. Or you can make use of a ”Fretsplit”, to divide the
fingerboard of your guitar into two totally distinct play areas, assigning
separate sounds or characteristics to each area. Using ”Picksplit” you
can divide the area of your guitar where you pick the strings into
three separate ranges, allowing you to assign various sounds and sound
characteristics to each range. In this way you can switch from sound
to sound with lightning speed, simply by moving your right hand
forward or backward.
Impressive effects can be controlled by the Pickcontrol function,
allowing you to assign such Midi controller effects as Modulation to
various pick ranges. Other effects such as COMMON (Bypass), SE-
PARATE (Hold), LAYER (ensemble/doubling), etc. can be controlled
by the fully programmable hold pedal.
The implimentation of a sophisticated Arpeggiator gives you the
possibilities of variation and expression and accompaniment. Splits
and effects can be freely combined and saved in up to 128 presets,
which can then be called up quickly.
Also unique to the AXON AX 100 is the ability to use special piezo
pickups in your bass guitar or even accoustic and nylon stringed
instruments, allowing you complete control of your AXON from
accoustic instruments. Finally a door to the midi world for bass
guitarists and classical guitarists is wide open for new and modern
forms of musical expression.
