Guitar synths (Don's rant)

[matti at devo.com]

Eh, maybe scrap the whole MIDI/CV controller idea, use a real, mostly intact 
guitar, run it through a beefed-up Roctave Divider type thing (and then an 
octave doubler on that?), dump the guitar's signal, and output just what comes 
out of the oscillators?

Or has everyone already come to that conclusion?



Quoting Scott Gravenhorst <chordman at flash.net>:

> Well, dang, thank you Don.  This is what I've been mulling for
> this thread; Don just nailed it so I'll do naught but simply
> agree.  Any guitar synth I've seen has precious little in terms
> of the controller aspect of expressivness necessary.  We're luck
> to get pitch bend per string with current units, let alone all
> of the harmonic controlling methods that guitarists use (as Don
> aptly notes) without even thinking about it.