Aside from Digital Ear and the other software converters, I think
the only current production hardware is the guitar synth stuff from
Roland, Yamaha and Axon. LVI in Canada (they make the Electrix
stuff) used to license their Pitchrider technology (You might be
able to find a Pitchrider 4000 on ebay) but they were never know
for being terribly fast to respond. Axon claims to be the
fastest using neural nets, haven't tried one and not sure they're
actually still available. There was a rumor that the Digitech Vocalist
would incorporate pitch-to-midi, since its basically already done in
that box and just needs a midi out socket, but I don't think this ever
happened.

I suspect it might be tough for Doepfer to develop a pitch-to-midi
module, but perhaps if the requirements aren't so stringent as they
are for other applications it might be possible to develop or license
what's needed.

--- In Doepfer_a100@y..., "Andreas Lindholm" <andreas.k.lindholm@t...>
wrote:

> It's not a bad idea at all, in fact I tried some gear back in the

80ies to

> allow me to whistle in my tunes, but I found them unrelieable and

learned

> the piano instead. So perhaps things have improoved a lot but pitch

to midi

> isn't an easy task to get done right so I suppose it would be a

costly

> module. That's why I am doubtful cause I don't expect it to be as

flawless

> as I'd like and cost to much. Anybody know of a good pitch to midi

device

> that works realtime and not on old samples
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "bakis Sirros" <synth_freak_2000@y...>
>
> > users!imagine what it would be like to be able to
> > actually PLAY the a100 vco's with a violin or a guitar
> > or any other acoustic instrument...or,even better,have
> > the a100 vco's "play" non pitched sounds like
> > drums/percussion and go nuts!so...what do you say is
> > the pitch to cv/gate/midi converter a very special
> > module or what ;-)