Guitar synths (Don's rant)

[J. Larry Hendry]

Well, you would need a separate audio out from each string since the
dividers and such can only respond to one frequency at a time.  Send them a
chord, and they get totally confused.  Garbage in, garbage out.
But that is a thought, use the guitar signal to get a square wave (counter
and divider type things).  Then maybe some waveshaping.

Larry H

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> From: matti at devo.com
> To: synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
> Subject: Re: Guitar synths (Don's rant)
> Date: Friday, May 19, 2000 8:31 PM
> 
> 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.