Harry's Rant was: Guitar synths (Don's rant)

[Theo]

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> I'm serious.  When you hear Miles Davis playing trumpet, are the
> specific pitches he's playing the thing that sends shivvers up your
> spine?  I doubt it.
>
Is it only the expressoin in the tones? I doubt that too.
Melodie and pitch are a importand part of the expression.
For the time being the first problem is to get the piches right.
I can think of al kind of  expression controllers that can be applied
afterwards.
(including things like driver position and so on)


> Look at what Roland did with their original technology guitar synth.
> I forget the name of it, but it's the one Pat Metheny uses.  It uses a
> distorted guitar tone as the VCO signal until it figures out what note
> you're playing and then it switches over to the real VCO.  That guitar
> synth has 0 time delay.
>
>   -- Don
>
This will not work with midi.

Cheers Theo