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Subject: [OT] RE: [motm] Re: Pitch to voltage converter

From: "Brousseau, Paul E (Paul)" <noise@...>
Date: 2000-12-09

See http://www.lightwave-systems.com/. Their idea is to watch shadows cast
on individual guitar strings with IR. They're working on a MIDI conversion
add-on board. I want one that spits CV also.

Ah, to dream...

--PBr

> -----Original Message-----
> From:Dave Bradley [SMTP:daveb2@...]
> Sent:Thursday, December 07, 2000 9:57 PM
> To:motm@egroups.com
> Subject:[motm] Re: Pitch to voltage converter
>
> Well, sure! If you're asking for a circuit to pick apart a guitar
> chord and analyze it, you're dreaming. The point of the comparator
> circuit I spoke of is precisely to get rid of the harmonics of a
> single note and just create a fundamental. Sorry, but monophonic is
> still the best you can do without hex pickups, six separate analysis
> circuits and all that crap. A wired fretboard would give you better
> results, but then that's not pitch to CV anymore...
>