Guitar synths (who listens to me???)

[Harry Bissell]

WELL guys I remember back around last christmas telling EVERYONE to run out and
buy the G-Vox guitar to computer interface at Guitar Center for $49, and cut
off the hex pickup (save) and throw the rest away !!!  I did and thats my
solution to the "IM" distortion problem. As some have heard, I have a pretty
good bass synth going using this, low note priority, monophonic.

This IS one answer to the speed problem (and the one I currently favor). You
will not
get a regualr waveform at the fundamental... division is mandatory.  Boosting
the frequency will be harder... The problem here will be the sustain of the
synthesized sound will not exceed the normal sustain of the guitar.

DON'T say I didn't warn you to get a pickup when you could....

H^)

"J. Larry Hendry" wrote:

> 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
>
> ----------
> > 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.