[sdiy] Moog guitar guts

[Veronica Merryfield]

I am thinking that you need to do something to get an open string  
going, hence an envelope detector but for anything other than an open  
string, there are other ways, or are you saying that the open string  
does not need strumming to get it going?

On 23-Jun-08, at 4:40 PM, John Mahoney wrote:

> At 07:03 PM 6/23/2008, Veronica Merryfield wrote:
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>>> And how about detecting strummed open strings?
>> Envelope follower and threshold detector. Roland had this licked in
>> their early GR series guitar and bass synths. Their last non-pitch
>> detecting version used the string as the oscillator and did some
>> interesting waveshaping and filtering. Worked very well.
>
> You don't need to strum the Moog guitar, though, so the envelope  
> threshold would need to be *extremely* low.
>
> John
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