Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sytek!syteka!jtm From: jtm@syteka.UUCP (Jim McCrae) Newsgroups: net.music.synth Subject: Guitar Synths Message-ID: <505@syteka.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 16:04:05 EST Article-I.D.: syteka.505 Posted: Wed Feb 27 16:04:05 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:22:30 EST References: cmu-ri-r.212 Lines: 27 net.music had a request for interest in and info about the world of guitar synthesizers. I want to echo that request request request. (Joke.) I've never been overly impressed with the fretboard action on stock guitar synths, such as Roland's stuff, but I am interested in the sounds that can be produced with the right equipment. I am more interested in flexible, preferably programmable, units to be plugged into the effects send/return loop on a stock Roland or Gallein-Krueger amplifier. I don't want to give up the feel and sound generating capabilities of my own necks and pickups; I just want to add some, how do you say, unusual coloring to my sound occasionally. Does anyone out there have any experience with plugin-style 'synthlike' equipment? Even very powerful digital delays are worth consideration; they can be made to do a lot with patience. The ultimate to me would be something fully programmable, not just select-and-store, but specify wave transformations in time, that sort of stuff. (I make the money to buy this stuff by programming computers; might as well stick with it.) Any interested parties who don't want to fill net.music.synth with more stuff can send mail. my birthday's coming up soon and I want to surprise myself big, so don't delay. "Then there was Guitar Slim. You'd say "Slim, why do you play so loud?" an' he'd say "Cause it sounds like this". Jim McCrae - Sytek, Mtn. View CA - {decvax,hplabs}!sytek!jtm