Re: Roland guitar synth future

[mech <mech@m3ch.net>]

At 11:10 PM -0600 2/12/06, mech wrote:
>>I wish that when Roland/Boss did their set of hex-pickup enabled 
>>pedals, that they would have done a GR100 (hex fuzz + hex filter) 
>>in a pedal. I've never played one, but the architecture sounds 
>>ideal for people who want to use conventional guitar techniques.
>
>Perhaps try looking around for the OC-20g PolyOctave stompbox?  It's 
>one of the two GK-effect stompboxes that came out from Boss (the 
>other being the WP-20g Wave Processor).  Never played one myself, 
>but I tripped over it while researching the Wave Processor.  I was 
>somewhat surprised to see they'd incorporated a distortion/fuzz 
>element to it.

Addendum: Agh!  Scratch my previous comment.  I did a little more 
digging and found that Boss cheaped out and just used a plain old 
ordinary distortion circuit in this box (running a summed output of 
all six strings) rather than implementing a true polyphonic 
distortion.  Talk about a missed opportunity.

Sorry for the distraction.  Carry on....

        --m.

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