Re: OT: StringPort for polyphonic guitars

[Matthias Grob <matilists@gmail.com>]

On 12 Jan 2009, at 12:01, Per Boysen wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Warren Sirota  
> <wsirota@wsdesigns.com> wrote:
>> i'm sorry, you don't think a hw guitar synth is using d/a  
>> converters with
>> buffering internally?
>>
>> time will tell about the latency. literally.
>
>
> Hope no one minds if I throw in an opinion here, even though Warren
> seems to direct the question to Andy. No, I don't think all hardware
> guitar synths needs to do D/A... actually it should be A/D (!)

in the end, any digital system needs both
>
> converting. The guitar signal is analog and if the HW synth is also
> analog there is no a/d conversion needed.

right

> I've played the Roland G300
> and it was super fast to trigger! I think it uses control voltage
> instead of digital to transfer the string pitch into the synth.

yes, and it was the last one to do so, thats why it still has a high  
value
>
> Comparing my MIDI Guitar the MIDI is very slow - and with varying
> latency depending what note you play. What I'm finding so interesting
> with STringPort is that it "brings each string into the computer as
> audio". However the presentation doesn't make it clear if it can be
> used as six audio ports in the computer.

wow, I understand thats the main purpose!

> I'm not very interested in
> the "VST Wall", "SMECK" etc applications. Six plain audio inputs for
> digitizing would be just fine, so the user can pipe them wherever he
> wants to do further processing or D/A amplification.

sure, its not a closed system, it appears for the OS like any audio  
interface
>
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se
> www.perboysen.com
>