guitar synth

[Harry Bissell]

Sorry I disagree....

Playing an organ or piano sound could be very satisfying... esp
in a live performance situation. It could fatten up a thin sounding
solo, duo, trio, cover for someone else while THEY do something
interesting.....

"Boring" is in the (eye, ear, ???) of the beholder....

H^)

Haible Juergen wrote:

> > -----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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >