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

[Don Tillman]

   Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 14:20:13 -0400
   From: Harry Bissell <harrybissell at prodigy.net>

   If you check out the V-Guitar system, they may be thinking along
   these lines. Unfortunatly most of the effort seems to be make a
   fender into a gibson... but some of the "synth" sounds are good,
   and no delay.  This might approximate the waveshaping idea so that
   the delay is eliminated... 

I *think* the Roland V-Guitar system is simply a standard DSP-based
effects unit, including pitch shifting and distortion, plus a digital
filter to emulate body resonances and a hex digital filter to emulate
the response of various pickup types and positions.

(The frequency response due to the pickup position and width is with
respect to the wavelength on the string, so it has to be done
seperately on each string.  Hence the hex pickup.)

It's interesting, but I don't think it's applicable to a guitar
synthesizer. 

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California, USA
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