[This message was edited by chas smith on 17 August 2005 at 11:37 AM.]

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The midi pickup takes it a little bit of time to find that out. How fast it does it is a function of the pickup and the preamps and the software

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The midi pickup (one per string) senses the vibration and the signal goes to the combination switch/preamp. From there it goes down a 13 pin cable to a unit (Roland/Axon/Yamaha) that changes the analog frequency information to midi data.

for a single note, a midi data stream would have a patch number, note on, and note off code. There are a lot of other data items that can be sent like modulation, velocity, etc.a small computer program does this.

To your question, some patches are like a slide guitar, violin, fretless bass, etc. They work like you would expect the real instrument to. Other patches don't make continuously variable pitch changes. (Imagine slide piano)

This is a function of the synth patch or sound. As such it could be changed, but it might sound weird.

The latency (time lag) doesn't seem to effect slides. I only really notice it on bass strings where the string vibrates slower and it takes a few more micro-seconds to interpret this.

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for a single note, a midi data stream would have a patch number, note on, and note off code. There are a lot of other data items that can be sent like modulation, velocity, etc.a small computer program does this

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