[sdiy] Guitar Synth boards ready... OT Question

[Harry Bissell Jr]

In my use... the Guitar must still be playable as
a guitar. Scott's tuning suggestion, while a little
different sounding... essentially still retains a
true guitar sound.

For my synthetic use... I could generate the missing
fundamentals with octave dividers...and my "bass
synth"
by dividing down two octaves.

There are several ways to get a "real" octave guitar
sound... use the actual guitar string waveform and
invert the polarity at the octave rate is one. OTOH
the
inversions will not necessarily be at the zero cross
of the original waveform (there will be phase delay
there).

I don't think I could wait for PLLs in this case
(since I'm already waiting for some time...)

H^) harry





--- Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net> wrote:
> "john mahoney" <jmahoney at gate.net> wrote:
> >> (private) BTW I tried your guitar synth tuning.
> it was pretty interesting
> >and
> >> I'll probably
> >> incorporate a means to do it when I go full poly.
> >>
> >> H^) harry
> >
> >
> >Oh, yeah, I had 2 comment on the synth tuning that
> Scott (Gravenhorst? I
> >think) mentioned.
> >
> >First, I recall that one of the synth converters
> supported the use of all E
> >strings, primarily for the faster pitch conversion.
> It also makes for a
> >lighter action, which probably feels strange
> beneath one's fingers!
> 
> Also, an all E string setup may work nicely for fast
> response on a guitar
> synth where only the synth is heard, but it would
> suck greatly for using both
> the synth and the standard pickups.  My tuning
> corrects the speed for the
> lowest two strings, which are the worst, but
> maintains the ability to use the
> standard pickups.  I don't find the delay
> objectionable for strings 4,3,2,and
> 1.  Also, for Harry's setup, he's using an analog
> system to synthefy (if
> that's a word) his guitar, as such, he needs to be
> able to tune the guitar to
> some sort of standard, either EADGBE or a chord or
> whatever.  Without a bunch
> of complicated PLL circuits for pitch shifting, I
> don't see how all E strings
> would work for him.  And some people really loathe
> PLLs (I an NOT one of them...)
> 
> 
> >Second, this is similar to a Nashville tuning
> (a.k.a. high stringing), where
> >the bottom 4 strings are tuned up an octave:
> >http://www.guitartips.addr.com/tip164.html
> >--
> >john
> >
> 
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