Re: guitar synth opinions/experience/etc.

[Marklar <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

>In a message dated 1/27/02 JIMFOWLER@prodigy.net writes:
>
>>anybody got any suggestions for a guitar synthesizer?
>>roland 33 looks nice, but i'd like some experienced
>  >opinions if you don't mind.
>
>Also, I find that the actual sound patches on both the
>older and newer G-series synths leave a lot to be desired.
>You have to edit and process and tweak the heck out of
>any patch to get anything remotely interesting out.
>But I guess that's the same with just about anything.


I'm in total agreement here.  I've got a GR-30, and I'm not thrilled 
with it's sounds, but if I run them through enough effects, I can get 
some cool stuff.  Why doesn't Roland put a decent tone generator in 
these boxes?  Who knows.  I'd love to be able to REALLY tweak the 
sounds (the sounds aren't very tweakable.  I've tried augmenting mine 
with my wife's Alesis S4, but although I set the pitch bend 
parameters to be the same, it didn't track well at all.  I need to 
spend some more time with that.

I saw an Axon GK2 pickup to MIDI converter demo'd 
(http://www.musicindustries.com/axon/index.html.)  It seemed to work 
REALLY well, but it was a bit pricey.  The upside is you can really 
use any synth you'd like.  If I had the dough to do it over, this is 
what I'd get.

Mark