[sdiy] Ideas for synthesizing an electric violin?

[Tim Parkhurst]

On Nov 16, 2007 2:26 PM, mike ruberto <somnium7 at gmail.com> 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
> _______________________________________________

Hey Mike,

Maybe try running it into a vocoder? I could see trying the violin as
the carrier OR the modulator. Might be fun to try a sequence into the
other vocoder input, and then "play along" with it. Of course, you
should also try some Mellotron samples as the carrier too.


Tim (not insane, but I'm a carrier) Servo
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