And to expand on this idea a little further: I plan to tune the
strings on the guitar to an open tuning (say, Open D) and then play a
sequence in the same key through the thing. I think the acoustic
drone of the strings will add (if I can believe what I'm hearing in my
head) and incredibly interesting background. I just hope the strings
don't overwhelm the sound from the synth, but we'll see...
Mike
--- In motm@y..., elhardt@a... wrote:
> Paul Schreiber writes:
> >>I think this is going about it the wrong way. More complicated,
but more
> controllable is to get a mechanism to "push & pull" the bow across a
string.
> Not a regular bow, a small one (say 4 inches). I would do this:....<<
>
> Maybe you haven't been following the posts too closely. We don't
want to move
> strings since the pitch can't be changed without a lot of other
hardware. What
> we want is the synthesizer to freely generate the pitches and a
resonant
> acoustic body to give it the character needed. Using a $9 transducer
like LH
> pointed out should hopefully be all that's needed besides a mic to
record the
> sound back into electronic form. If that fails, then that's where I
stop
> because I will have answered my question as to whether it can be
done or not.
>
> -Elhardt