[sdiy] Ideas for synthesizing an electric violin?

[mike ruberto]

Wow I haven't even started drinking and somehow confused viola with
cello - and this is after repairing a string synth!!!
That does sound like fun. I don't have an envelope follower right now
so I tried a envelope filter preset in my TC Electronics FX box and
man was that crazy and cool sounding on Violin. Gonna have to slap
together an EF circuit now and stick into a stomp box with one of my
synthacon VCFs. Seriously neat sound.

I think it is awesome that your friend can build those instruments.
That must take some mad patience!

Mike

On Nov 16, 2007 6:04 PM, groovyshaman <groovyshaman at snet.net> wrote:
> Hi Mike.  My friend Owen is sort of a mad scientist.  First he learned
> how to play, then decided to build his own body-less electric one (then
> he built a second with his knowledge from the 1st).  His idea was to run
> the thing through some physical modeling software plug-in.  I asked him
> to bring it over and hook it up to my modular.  We drank some beer.  I
> "played" some keyboards.  The rest is history. :)  We plan to do that
> again, it was great fun.  Not sure but there must be somewhere on line
> that offers cello kits.  All I know is Owen built his from scratch.
> I'll send some sound samples the next time we, err... "jam".
>
> Cheers,
> George
>
>
> mike ruberto wrote:
> > George that is hilarious! I almost fell out of my seat laughing at your message.
> >
> > It sounds like you had great fun with those violas. Definitely hook me
> > up with some recordings when you can. Wouldn't mind having a peek at
> > those Violas either. Can I find them online anywhere?
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > On Nov 16, 2007 5:46 PM, groovyshaman <groovyshaman at snet.net> wrote:
> >> Well, not violin, but how about electric cello? :)  My friend has built
> >> two body-less cellos.  We hooked one up to my modular using piezo
> >> pickups through a homebrew single tranny preamp.  I unfortunately do not
> >> have any sound examples, but yes it was interesting.  I'll record some
> >> next time, if I can stay sober enough to work the software (knobs and
> >> switches are always easy :).
> >>
> >> George
> >>
> >>
> >> mike ruberto wrote:
> >>> Hey folks,
> >>>
> >>> My wife has decided to pick up the violin again after like 20 years so
> >>> we picked up a cheap electric violin. We'll get a better one later on
> >>> down the road but for now this one is good for practice and
> >>> EXPERIMENTATION. I've already mucked about with running it through my
> >>> Ziggaurat Processor and Synthacon VCF. You can hear it being used a
> >>> little for background sound FX in our new song Sculpture of Despair -
> >>> http://www.somnium7.com
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, I was wondering if anybody has done something like this before
> >>> - running an electric violin through their modular..
> >>> I would love to know what was done and hear some examples.
> >>> Anybody?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>> M. A. Ruberto
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