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

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I've cajoled about this before with a friend as he has the VG-8
guitar system. It really wouldn't matter if it was a stick
with a wire
on it. All you're doing is triggering.
It has  synth, classical,
acoustic, basses and more! emulations.
No the synth does not sound too swell.
Even the Boss SY-B pedal sounds way better.
Chris Meyers
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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
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