Synth Axe

[tomg@efm]

I had one of those once.....total frustration...It does kinda work but not
much like a guitar. Yeah you finger frets and strum strings but no bends
because there are no strings on the neck. You can forget pull-offs or
other guitar tricks. There is a delay between the time you play and hear
the note. The worst part is there is no way to really control the note
length.

If you or anybody else want to play keyboard sounds on a guitar
the Roland GR-1's are under $200 on ebay. This is an amazing price
for what you can do with this thing....Great for playing live not so good
as a midi-controller but as long as you are driving the internal GR-1
sounds, latency is not an issue.  You can split strings, say play bass on
654 and strings on 321, a 12 string patch is easy or you can put a
different sound on each string if you want. You can throw your octave
multiplier away.

Tom



> Hi folks.
>
> Just wonder if anyone here knows the "Synth Axe" Synth-Guitar? A very
> strange red plastic guitar with fake-strings and a 5 key keyboard on it's
> side.
>
> I would like to get a used one, so I searched the ebay for it, but I
didn't
> found it.. Then started up my favorite search engine and searched there..
> Only one link (to a photo from Moog Cookbook.. There one of them is
> "playing" a synth axe).
>
> Now I really wonder: If I only find one stupid link in altavista Synth Axe
> is definately not the exact name for this thing...
> Does anyone know for what I should look instad (original name for
example).
>
> Thanks in advance,
>       Nils