Blue Chip AIX101 6-String Guitar Interface with Hex Pickups

The AIX-101 guitar interface is for the steel stringed guitars featuring MIDI volume, up/down preset buttons, 3-position toggle switch (synth only, guitar and synth, and guitar only playing), and a 13-pin connector output jack.

Guitar Goes MIDI
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 guitarist's technique and the massive amounts of sound information to be translated into MIDI data. Researchers at Blue Chip Labs 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.

Question: How can we recognize the pitch of a string before it fully sounds? Enter Blue Chip Music. Engineers at Blue Chip 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. Imagine this: You have an entire room filled with all kinds of instruments (Trumpets, Oboes, Violins, a Clavichord). Over in the corner is a piano, a violin, a vibraphone and almost any orchestral instrument imaginable.

Then there's the electronic department: Electric guitars and basses with multi effects, sound modules, analog synths, workstations, all kinds of keyboards, even a Hammond B-3.

And here you sit in the middle of it all with your guitar on your knee and your AXON in front of you. You're playing just like you always do, but the sounds you hear are all the sounds that you would have expected to hear from the other instruments around you. There is a whole new world of sounds now available to you as a guitarist. Live via the Internet you play your ideas for a friend. Your PC becomes your recording studio that displays the notes you play on your guitar and allows you to print them.

You compose, arrange, direct and perform in a new dimension. Live on stage the sound that your audiences hear comes unrestricted, right from your mind to their ears, giving you unparalleled creativity that is sure to blow them away.

This is Guitar goes MIDI. The guitar is no longer an instrument to be restricted by its analog nature. A new world is out there waiting to be discovered by the guitarist and bassist.