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MIDI Guitar 3 Hex

State-of-the-art hexaphonic tracking

For guitarists who use hexaphonic pickup systems, MIDI Guitar 3 Hex offers performace that is fast, responsive, accurate, dynamic and expressive.


A modular and extensible live performance host

MIDI Guitar 3 Hex is also a powerful, versatile, modular guitar-effect-designer, and a live performance host. It brings together your third-party plug-in collection of virtual instruments and audio effects (as well as MIDI controllers), in a single package that is easy to use in the studio or on the stage.


Why MIDI Guitar 3 Hex?

Hardware hex systems are not new but the technology hasn't undergone much development for decades. MIDI Guitar 3 Hex steps in with state-of-the-art audio tracking models and recent advances in machine-learning to address these systems' weaknesses. Call it a software upgrade for your hardware.

MIDI Guitar 3 Hex takes over the heavy lifting from the hardware, which is only needed to send the six channels of audio (one channel per string) from the hex pickup to the software.

As a musician, you want your mind on the music and not the technology that's making it. MIDI Guitar 3 Hex keeps hex simple, unlike most hardware systems that have a variety of hidden parameters that require tweaking and attention. In contrast MIDI Guitar 3 Hex, just works without overly complex settings while giving direct visual feedback on realtime performance.

And MIDI Guitar 3 Hex is under active development with free lifetime updates, unlike many hardware offerings which rarely get firmware updates and are stuck with their built-in CPU.

MIDI Guitar 3 vs MIDI Guitar 3 Hex: Which version is right for me?

Both versions are leaders in their respective spaces: MIDI Guitar 3 offers the best possible MIDI/MPE from a standard 1/4" jack connection while MIDI Guitar 3 Hex offers an enhanced audio-to-MIDI tracking and pr. string audio effects.

MIDI Guitar 3 Hex recognizes notes faster and more accurately than the standard version of MIDI Guitar 3 can due to its ability to process each string's' signal independently.

The standard version of MIDI Guitar 3 offers guitarists wonderful simplicity in that the software only needs the audio signal from a standard 1/4" guitar jack to generate polyphonic MIDI/MPE.

The standard MIDI Guitar 3 doesn't require any guitar modifications, which means it works for all your guitars. Take comfort in the fact that there is no gluing or drilling into your precious instruments required. At a fraction of the cost of a hardware system, MIDI Guitar 3 is the place to start and you can always upgrade to hex pickups later.

Hexaphonic hardware requirement

MIDI Guitar 3 Hex requires a hexaphonic pickup/hardware system to function.

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