On a similar note:
In an old Roland Users Group mag, there's an interview with Skunk Baxter
talking about guitar synths. He mentions experimenting with using tape
heads as pickups for the strings.
I'm not knowledgeable enough to know if a tape head can function as a
pitch-cv converter or
exactly what they were doing, but it sounded interesting--particularly if
you've got a bunch of old dictaphones lying around.
tomr
----- Original Message -----
From: Brousseau, Paul E (Paul) <noise@...>
To: <motm@onelist.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 2:41 PM
Subject: RE: [motm] Guitar synthm MOTM style?
> From: "Brousseau, Paul E (Paul)" <noise@...>
>
> 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? And can I ask a more run-on question?
>
> It seems to me that the advantage of this type of control over a keyboard
is
> in the fact that the pitch controlling CV is inherantly "noisey" and
> unstable, compared to the stability of your typical keyboard. Is this
> people's expirience?
>
> --PBr
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Doug Pearson [SMTP:ceres@...]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 11:03 AM
> > To: motm@onelist.com
> > Subject: Re: [motm] Guitar synthm MOTM style?
> >
> > From: Doug Pearson <ceres@...>
> >
> > I have both both a Korg MS-03 (dedicated pitch->CV box) and MS-20
> > (monosynth with "external signal processor" including envelope follower
> > and
> > pitch->CV). In my experience, the MS-03 is pretty worthless, BUT the
> > MS-20's pitch->CV function is pretty decent and very usable as long as
you
> > have "clean" technique (if you're using it as a guitar synth) - I've
even
> > found it to adequately track a bass guitar signal (low frequencies
> > understandably take longer to "lock in"). Having highpass & lowpass
> > filters, and a signal amplifier at the signal input helps, too, since
that
> > lets you cut out harmonics that might interfere with the tracking and
lets
> > you tailor the signal level for optimum response.
> >
>
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