Up all night was: guitar synth

[Harry Bissell]

This is true...  I tune a little 'flat' and some band members will say... hey
you're flat.
I tell 'em "once I start pounding this thing for real, I WILL NOT be flat anymore
!"

OTOH... If I'm playing a piano patch, I want it quantized, and no "pitch bend"
thanks...

In order to feel like a real guitar to me, it has to do everything I want it to
do, whenever I
want to do it...

That'd work for  spouses too... eh ???

H^)

WeAreAs1 at aol.com wrote:

> Harry "Krishna" Bissell wrote:
>
> << Pre-bent strings are still a problem >>
>
> EVERY note you ever try to play on a guitar is "pre-bent" to some extent.
> Furthermore, just by virtue of minute changes in finger pressure as you
> continue to hold the note, the pitch of the note is constantly in flux, even
> when the player is not intentionally bending or vibrato-ing (although those
> also certainly are important factors).  This, of course, is as it should be,
> and for a guitar synth to be truly successful (IMO), the synth's pitch should
> continuously follow all of these minute (and large) pitch changes.  MIDI is
> definitely a crappy way to do this, although most of the MIDI units try (by
> cramming the MIDI cable with six channels worth of spurious Pitch Bend
> messages).  I think a continuous analog pitch control signal is the better
> way to go.
>
> Even notes played on open strings are not exempt from this, since the pitch
> of the string always shifts up a bit when you pluck it, then settles down
> into its "real" pitch - Just like a well-tuned tom-tom will, when you hit it
> hard (actually, this attack-bend phenomenon is usually even MORE apparent on
> open strings than on fretted notes).
>
> I think a guitar synth should accurately interpret and reflect this stuff,
> and not try to mask it, if it is to really feel like a guitar to the player.
>
> Michael B.