John Birch Guitars Midi Bass

M3 MIDI Bass Package

In order to provide the guitarist and bassist with a means of accessing the new technology of
computers, samplers, keyboards and any other device capable of receiving MIDI data,
a new system has been designed.

The vast experience of JOHN BIRCH as a pickup designer and respected guitar builder,
and the brilliant technical skills of FOREFRONT TECHNOLOGY
have combined to produce a very fast and flexible system

Each pickup contains an audio output, and individual string outputs for driving the M3 Processor.
The use of these specially designed pickups in place of conventional types means that the
guitar or bass has no unsightly surface-mounted cables to catch whilst playing.
The output is on a locking multi-pin socket mounted on the side edge of the guitar.

The M3 Guitar-to-MIDI Processor is a 1U rack unit with a choice of one or two foot controllers.
The unit has the ability to program each string individually, and has 64 patches to store and recall settings.

The front panel LCD display shows the status of settings, and 6 LEDs show each string when playing.

Four panel switches allow selection of all setups, and the unit can also be edited by remote using a
hand-held ForeFront Technology FT3 Patch Commander, or by using the PC Windows patch editor program.