[sdiy] analogue guitar type controler thing

[Dave Krooshof]

>hey, I've been thinking about building a guitar style controler for 
>live performance >with my mc202, with a "fret board" up a kneck, and 
>some buttons down on the body >of the which would be like the 
>strings... i.e. +0,+5,+10,+15 semi tones to the ones >selected with 
>the fret board...
>
>but I don't have much idea how to do this...
You do!
There here:
>I was thinking that touchswitches would be the simplest to 
>construct, but how to >get a gate signal? I was thinking it would 
>also be good to have more touch switchs >for triggering portamento 
>and accent...

If you use real metal strings on a real guitarneck, you have
exellent switches. Just wire up the frets and figure out a way
to check what the highest fret touched is.

Please do more posts on how you are progressing, as I love
new interfaces to synths. Knobs and buttons are soooo boring.
Keys are buttons... boring too.

Dave
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