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

[Harry Bissell]

The V-guitar is capable of some synth-like textures... most notably (IMO)
a
"hammond" organ sound, a couple of basses, and some more traditional
"synthy" sounds (of course around here... 'Traditional' and 'Synthy' do
not go hand in hand :^)

The hex pickup is needed because the system is polyphonic... the
Al-Gore-rhythms
are separate for each string.  IM!HO  the "virtual" amps svck. If you
want a Fender get
a Fender, Marshall/Marshall etc.  And I wouldn't buy it just for the
couple of synth
textures...

since it is real time it would (of course) be described as "distortion".

Always cracked me up when people would point out early "Queen" albums
with the
disclaimer "no synthesizers"   Yeah... Byte Me... what the hell do you
call all that
signal processing gear PATCHED together ???

H^)  harry (the quest for the 'grail' continues)

Don Tillman wrote:

>    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
>
> --
> Don Tillman
> Palo Alto, California, USA
> don at till.com
> http://www.till.com