Guitar synths (everyone's rant)

[Paul Perry]

The problem with guitar synths?

Everyone wants it to do different (probably
incompatable) things.
Some people just want something so they can transfer 
tab notation to midi tracks, or as a composing tool.

Some want to operate in realtime, controlling one or
six synths, which might be midi or cv.

Some want to really play a guitar, with the full 
features of a guitar expressionwise, but the sound
comes via synth techniques withall the flexibility 
that entails.

Face it, nothing is going to do all this and more.
As was rightly pointed out, it isn't even possible 
over MIDI, though I'm suprised nobody said 
'individual note pressure' yet. And nobody said 
'neural network' which is prob the only way to extract enough
info quickly enough.

Personally, I'd like to see a 'stick' shaped controller 
so people could impress the audience in a rockgod wanker 
style while twirling the knob to ..... oh never mind.

Actually what I *really* want is a reference book that 
covers doing sine synthesis etc by microprocessors, some
kind of how to DCO. Any ideas?

Paul Perry Melbourne Australia