Help for Audio-Midi system

Nico vanderplas, a boutique vibes builder in the Netherlands who makes excellent gear, was making a midi system for a while and he may still be. You can reach him at info@vanderplasbaileo.com . I don't know if his unit will work with K&K, but it may. You may also be able to continue to use your piezo pickups (which are pretty generic, just a piezo disc soldered to a cable w/some potting compound to protect the junction) with his collector rails and midi unit. For K&K, you need to find a used midi unit (which may require a lot of patience) and you need to have an older pickup system with the computer type wiring (like 9 or 21 pin cable hook up, can't remember) for the preamp. I think there were latency issues with the K&K. K&K makes a different and better preamp now, but my understanding is that it does not work with the K&K midi. You could also contact Dieter at K&K and ask him if he has any recommendations.

Also check with Steve Shapiro on this board. He is using a guitar to midi adapter. It can do one note at a time but won't handle chords. Still, able to get some great sounds. He posted a video here sometime in the last year showing some of the great sounds.