Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, LARRY HAWKE <gorgarh@...> wrote:
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> 
> Wonder what it would sound like to use an Ebow with the guitar synth?

yeah that's it, combine the two most unplayable guitar-gadget playing 
methods!  You have to play so deliberately for those midi trackers to 
work in the first place, I suspect adding an E-bow would only add to 
the tracking errors. 

> I've seen some videos of Tommy Bolin using an early guitar 
synth/processor with the James Gang, but he was such a magician it 
would have been complete crap if anyone else played it.  ;^)
> 

The only time I ever saw anyone trying to do guitar->midi pitch 
tracking live was Robert Fripp when he ressurected King Crimson in the 
early 90s, and he had to play chords so slowly it was nothing but a 
gimmicky hindrence, and he dropped that routine after one tour.  I can 
see the appeal of a guitarist having a pitch->midi converter running 
while in the studio, just to make jotting down quick ideas that much 
easier, but otherwise I contend they're useless.  Granted, the only one 
I have personal experience with is the Shadow converter, and it was 
supposedly one of the best.  I'm just glad I never had to pay the $800 
price tag for it, as a guy let me borrow it and never bothered asking 
for it back, and after using it I know why.