guitar synth

[Haible Juergen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Martin Czech [SMTP:czech at Micronas.Com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, May 24, 2000 10:57 AM
> To:	synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
> Subject:	Re: guitar synth
> 
> 
> > individual pick ups , one for each string. Like distortion without
> > intermodulation.
> 
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> 
> Funny enough, as a non-guitar player, this (the artefacts) is for what
> I envy you (the guitar players) the most.
> 
> That's why I sometimes play organ into distortion devices, rather than 
> a buzzy synth sound. I like the artefacts that come from legato
playing. A distorded minor second sounds great when it only lasts
a few milliseconds !

> And that's why I play a VL7 (with a *clean* guitar sound) thru the HiFli:
> I like the interactions of a non-perfect tone with nonlinear devices.
> Just when the VL7's fake guitar sound with finite sustain has *almost*
> faded below the noise, and the compressor still boosts both signal and
> noise to a level where the HiFli's distortion works - that's where the
> fun really starts.
> I whished I had the duophonic VL1 instead, to get the phrasing
> of "dirty" transitions bewtween notes from separate strings as well !
> 
> Meanwhile, the following is a good surrogate: I play the clean guitar
> sound into the VL7's internal echo effect, with high feedback gain
> (10 ... 20 echoes). Then the output of the echo goes into the
> HiFli and is compressed and distorted there. Each time I play a new
> note, the compressor pushes the echoes into the background, and
I get a rather "clean" and singing distortion. But as the volume
> of the dominating note fades (or when I play nore notes in legato mode),
> the echo starts to play a role in the distortion and the sound becomes
> more dirty.
> 
> Ok, the HiFli is not really a guitar synthesizer, but a set of more or
> less ordinary guitar effects. But it also has envelope detectors
> which generate trigger signals for synthesized envelopes, and the
> sub octave generator is closer to a pitch detector than to a simple
> frequency divider. 
> 
> Bottom line: Even though I'm not a guitar player, I enjoy the various
> possibilities of guitar synth related processing - but I agree with
> Martin: Playing an organ or piano sound from a stringed instrument
> must be boring for sure.
> 
> JH.
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