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Fripps and Belews guitars must be incredible set up i even remeber seeing them live using the normal internal GK-2 pickup which i have on the roland ready but u couldnt hear any of that synth glitchy yodeling u get from synths, and they were using pretty warning synth techniques like wammy bar bends rapid slurs,percussion playing etc... --- Fluke <fluke@gotadsl.co.uk> wrote: > After 15 years or more using guitar synths, I agree > with all of this > although it all becomes second nature and I don't > have ton think about it > much. > > EXCEPT the 'slurs, pull offs, hammer ons, rakes, and > bends, and even most > strums' all do work for me with a correctly setup > Axon AX100 system. Scrapes > and percussive noises don't, but all those tricks > that result in a change in > pitch of the note do. As for piano and organ sounds, > with pitch bend set to > retrigger notes at every semitone, bends come out > well as typical keyboard > slurs. > > Nik > > --------- Original Message -------- > From: billwalker@baymoon.com > To: "Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com" > <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> > Subject: RE: Roland guitar synth future > Date: 12/02/06 23:32 > > What I came to early on in my guitar synth > experience was to play > to its strengths. I try to stay away from idiomatic > guitar playing. I try to > play to the sound, and always use my fingers to > apply myself more like a > keyboardist. I tend to use more long envelope pads > sounds where precise > timing is not such an issue. and I love the sound of > my nylon string guitar > with synth strings swelling underneath. I won't set > up a piano patch with > pitch bend activated, so I can play blues bends with > a grand piano sound. > I've tried it and it sounds hokey, and its more > glitchy. If I play a piano, > marimba, or other percussive sound, I don't try to > out run the tracking with > an overly fast tempo, and I usually blend the sound > with guitar to minimize > the tracking issues. I'm also more apt to use my > GR30's arpeggio function > for up tempo and dance stuff, any way, as I can have > the unit track well at > any tempo. When recording, I minimize dead spots on > my Roland equipped > guitar by using a groove tubes fat finger on the > headstock, to provide more > mass and sustain, and help prevent glitching and > yodeling ( the term I've > heard used for the spontaneous octave leaps at the > end of certain notes as > they decay). I learned that long ago, when the first > Roland guitar I had (a > white 2 humbucking guitar made for Roland, probably > by Ibanez), had a couple > of horrible dead spots that kept making the Gr300 > yodel as the sound > decayed. Some one suggested putting a c clamp on the > headstock, and sure > enough that guitar sustained for days. Being > somewhat impractical to have a > c clamp on the headstock, I eventually got a > graphite neck made by Hohner to > put on it and that really cured the dead spot > problems. These days I have an > internal gk pickup on my parts strat that has a huge > maple neck that is very > stable. I also have an RMC in my flamenco guitar, > and an external unit > mounted to my renaissance RS6. The last thing I > wanted to mention regarding > the guitar synth in general, is, because the > tracking is not so forgiving, I > find that I have to concentrate more on the little > technical things to not > get frustrated. These include being more aware of > correct finger placement, > more even in picking hand attack, using more care > when moving from one place > to another on the fret board. But the reality is, > all of the cool scrapes, > slurs, pull offs, hammer ons, rakes, and bends, and > even most strums > guitarist are so fond of, don't work on midi guitar. > But there is a world of > cool things they do, and the good news is this is > relatively inexpensive > technology to dive in to if you don't mind buying > used. Its just not for > everybody. > Bill > > ________________________________________________ > Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.2 > > www.luis-angulo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com