Terratec Axon AIX103 Bass Pickup / MIDI Interface for Electric Basses

Axon AIX103 Bass Pickup / MIDI Interface for Electric Basses description:

The Terratec AXON AIX 103 MIDI Pickup has been specially optimised for bass guitars, enabling bass players to tap into the world of Synthesizers and MIDI.

The Terratec AXON AIX 103 Bass MIDI pickup needs a special 13-core cable (available separately) to connect to the AXON AX100 Guitar-to-MIDI converter (also available separately).

As long as there has been MIDI, there have been guitarists attempting to tap into that fantasy world of sounds and expressions. Most of these attempts ended in frustration and failure due to the lack of a pitch recognition system that was precise enough and more importantly fast enough to keep up with a guitarists technique and the massive amounts of sound information to be translated into MIDI data.

Researches have revealed that at the very instant that a guitar string sounds, it is already too late for pitch recognition to begin, regardless of technology or method used. And so ends the story of the first MIDI controllers that were always frustrating guitarist with their long delays on their MIDI output.

The Axon Engineers have successfully developed an early recognition system that analyses the impulse that occurs at the very instant a string is played. This system recognizes the pitch of a string before it fully vibrates. Dynamics and length are then computed as the string continues to sound.

Terratec AXON AIX 103 main features include:

• Bass interface for use with Electric Basses
• Standard 13pin DIN connection
• 13-core cable available separately
• Works with the AXON AX100 converter - available separately