MOTM

>From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
>
>The Roland GR series uses a "hex pickup" and 6 pitch-to-cv converters.
>Success
>is based on your playing style. It takes months and months of practice to
>even get
>above awful.

Yeah, but to be fair, so does any musical instrument. There seems to be
this prevalent attitude that synths are supposed to make us sound good
immediately, which is why synth manufacturors went to the glorified home
organ console route. Any instrument takes practice time, there isn't any
substitute. About a year ago, I picked up a Yamaha WX-7 wind controller,
the thing that looks like a Clarinet designed by Escher. I haven't ever
really played a wind instrument before, and I pretty much sound like crap
on this thing, but it's pretty exciting because it opens up a whole new
area of expression on synths. I guess my message is that, just 'cause you
play guitar real good, don't expect that there won't be a learning curve
jumping to gtr synth.
>
>If you want to hear great guitar synth playing, get Pat Metheney's "Offramp"
>CD.
>Uses a $45,000 (yes, $45,000) custom rig with a Synclavier. Whee Ha!

Agreed. Though Bill Frisell got some really nice sounds from a GR-series
synth back in the '80's, and I KNOW for a fact he didn't have anywhere near
45G's invested in that.

OB MOTM: I've had this really nice swirly oscillator feedback patch
wooshing around for the last day or so, 3 osc's fm'ing each other through
slow LFO-controlled VCA's, all through a 320. God, I love my modular!

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