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

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

The only halfway decent systems I've heard about in the last few years
involve a custom guitar, that does not use pitch to voltage at all. To get
around the inherent lag time problem, a laser shines down each string and is
interrupted by the finger, allowing its position to be calculated and a
voltage or midi output derived. It senses sideways position for pitch
bending also.

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

> I remember using one of the old IVL units years ago with an Emu
> modular....
> you never really knew what you were going to get. Seemed to work ok with
> "pure" tones such as a flute. No surprise there. Just don't
> play too fast!
>
> Ivan
>