The GR-55 as a MIDI controller
I am in the midst of composing a song that has a small orchestral arrangement and thought that this might be a good excuse to try out the GR-55 as a MIDI controller. For this undertaking I would just be needing to step-wise record a few parts into Notion. I found the set up to be very intuitive and quite an improvement over the GR-30 which was highly dependent on the patch you selected.
Since I wasn't recording real-time, I didn't get to assess too closely the performance with regard to glitches. However, with only a couple of unintentional note triggers I was able to quickly enter several music sections that were mostly 8th notes. It was much quicker than entering the notation via the mouse and keyboard.
I didn't use the USB interface for MIDI but used a standard MIDI cable out of the GR-55 into my Focusrite MIDI interface.
Once I get a little further along in the song, and perhaps try out the real-time MIDI recording I'll see about posting the song.
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