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From: jtm@syteka.UUCP (Jim McCrae)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Guitar Synths
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Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 16:04:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 27 16:04:05 1985
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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