[sdiy] Synthesis and effects (sprung from the loins of "Death of DIY?")

[harrybissell]

Scott Stites wrote:

> The main difference is that your guitar or bass has four, six, 10 or 12
> voice paraphony built in, and you don't have to give one bit of a damn about
> temperature compensation, unless it gets reallllyyyyy hot or realllyyyyy
> cold.  This is in trade for decent voltage control, gating and triggering
> other than what you can derive from an envelope generator or, if you're
> lucky, you have Muffy around to extract voltage from pitch monophonically.
> I guess that's why God gave guitarists feet as well as fingers.

LOL, He gave us feet so we could play drums at the same time :^P

Actually my old Travis Bean (aluminum neck) had temperature issues. As it
warmed up the neck gets longer and it goes sharp. Used to drive people
crazy when I would tune up to them, slightly flat... and say "trust me it really

IS in tune now".    (it drifted more with temperature than the wood necks vary
with humidity. At least it drifted FASTER (bad).

I'm using the strings to directly generate synth waveforms. This 'sort' of takes

care of the termperature drifts... excpet for the P/V conversion and the
tracking
filters... which (er...) drift like any other analog synth.   (not much, they
are all
tempco'd)

H^) harry