guitar synth

[Harry Bissell]

The EMu proteus series can do what you want. It has a large assortment of
raw waves to play with.  Can get some good raw waves but alas no
VCF...

H^) harry

farky wrote:

> Hey folks.
>
> I bought a Yamaha G50 midi converter and a G1D pickup and slapped it on
> my Jazzmaster.  I was using a Roland GK-2A with a GI-10.  I'm pleased
> with the improvement of tracking speed.  It's now a little better than
> acceptable.  The problem with the tracking delay that I had encountered
> with the Roland units was that I didn't feel like the notes were coming
> from my fingers--I didn't feel connected to the notes.  That problem is
> gone, and it was really my only big complaint that I had encountered in
> guitar synthesis.  I recommend the Yamaha units.
>
> My other complaint with synth guitar applies to all recent sample based
> synths.  It seems that I just can't get far enough away from the
> waveforms that come in ROM.  What I mean is, I want to make patches that
> are truly unique and don't sound like a bassoon but some warped thing
> from mars or maybe halfway from here to mars.  And I don't want
> stereotypical "out there" sounds.  It seems like analog synths would be
> the way to go because the options for combining waves and
> processing/modulating them are different and you don't start out with a
> sampled grand piano in an echo chamber with the damper off.
>
> Those are my thoughts for the evening.
>
> toby