Fishman Triple Play

Fits very easily and well to a guitar with a Tunomatic bridge (I used a Jackson Rhoads). Floyd bridge guitars will require sufficient space between the bridge and the pickup and necessitate using the 'mild' adhesive to attach the pickup to the guitar itself. The wireless functionality is great - no noticeable latency and battery life is excellent. The stock / default sounds are wonderful and I could made very good use of the strings, wind, sax, flute type instruments but I found that piano/keys and and other 'high attack' type instruments such as nylon stringed guitar suffered terribly from ghost / artifact notes and were practically unusable even where playing extremely cleanly. Perhaps a factory fitted Tripleplay might improve on this (such as the Godin or Fender Tripleplay equipped guitars that are available).

Unfortunately, the real problem that I found was with the software. Even forgetting the time consuming and impenetrable 3rd party software components provided on a 'trial' basis (but still require registration and authorisation), the base FTP installation was incredibly unstable, at least in Windows 7, and would crash completely seemingly at random. The software interfaces are also quite terrible. Native instruments and Fishman should be ashamed of themselves for producing such user unfriendly interfaces.

I could have lived these shortcomings with that had the software been more stable. Unfortunately the instability of the base FTP software made the whole package utterly useless for live performances and there was no way I could rely on it for fleshing out the sound of a covers band.

Initially I was suspicious of the bluetooth because the delay factor has always been a major problem with all the guitar to midi devices I have tried. Surprisingly the response time was a very good.
Having said that, the setup of the pickup was a very fiddly. I ended up putting it on an old strat copy I have because, although a number of different mounting options are provided, I could not find one that would fit on the guitar I wanted to use.
Once everything was optimised, I discovered that playing it as cleanly as the guy in the promo vids is no easy thing. The right hand technique has to be spot on or there are stray notes all over the place.
The software and the sound banks that it comes with are great and the Tripleplay app offers a some unexpected and exciting possibilities.
Is it worth nearly £300? If you are a guitar player who wants the occasional synth sound under you fingers - probably not. If you are prepared to approach it like a new instrument, then yes it could be.