MOTM

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.  
>