Amiga - MIDI - guitar

[billchase]

You need a MIDI cable or two, which you'll pick up in any decent music shop. MIDI I/F connects to A1200 parallel port. MIDI out of I/F connects to in of Amp and vice-versa.

The MIDI interface connects to the serial port, not the parallel.
The sampler connects to the parallel port. Download Bars&Pipes
Professional.  It is a wonderful sequencer that is a free download.
I believe you will have a lot of fun with it.  Many electronic stores
carry MIDI cables (might just be labeled Din-5 cable) if your local
music shop does not.

C Snyder

http://www.alfred-j-faust.de/indexeng.html
http://fromwithin.com/liquidmidi/whatis.html
 

[billchase]

Your right, he won't get many sounds from the Amp, but just
the ability to use the guitar as an input device IMO is the
really cool part.  Once he lays down a few MIDI tracks, he
can always add better tone banks and generators later.

C Snyder
 

[billchase]

The Guitar can provide sound input, but I'm pretty sure it can't provide midi input (not without some major hacking).  The midi interface on the amp is in/thru only.  I expect the midi capabilities will be limited to controlling the amp (gain, eq, ).

Thank you for the correction.  I didn't pay close enough attention
to the pic of the midi box.  Now to answer the original question
of what you can achieve with it using an Amiga, that mainly depends
on the features and capabitilies of the amp it is made for.  Sequencers
like Bars&Pipes can still be used for this application, the difference
being its outputing specific control data vs "music" data to manipulate
the amp.

C Snyder