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Subject: RE: [motm] Guitar synthm MOTM style?

From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...>
Date: 2000-03-23

> Again jumping on the expound-on-random-idea wagon, if "normal"
> guitars track
> better than bass guitars due to lock-in time on low frequencies,
> then could
> you take a guitar, string all the strings with the highest pitch string (I
> don't know the teminology for that), fit it with higher-range pickups, and
> send each string to an individually tuned pitch->CV for the whole range of
> notes?

Precisely this approach has been taken by several guitar synths in the past.
Of course, guitar wankers who tried it complained about the "feel" of the
skinny strings being weird.

Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@...