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Want to use guitar as a synthesizer. HELP!
I am guitarist trying to do some instrumental through my MBOX Protools
LE. Can someone suggest any software or plugin that I can use as a synthesizer. Meaning, I want to play keyboard through the guitar. I guess, what I'm asking is, I would like to use the guitar only to play the bass and keyboard. Can someone give me some suggestion? Thanks Shahed |
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Want to use guitar as a synthesizer. HELP!
There are a couple options. Roland makes a device (I forget the name)
designed to do just that. It contains a special pickup that senses each note on each string and converts that to MIDI. You can then plug that pickup into the synthesizer that Roland makes that goes with the pickup, or I think you could input it to any synth. But I may be wrong. The pickup connector might be proprietary. There is a similar device out there called AXON I think. It also consists of a special pickup and synth. Both these options run around $1000. There is another device called GVOX that is no longer made. It too is a special pickup that senses the notes on the strings. It sold for around $100 and simply inputs the MIDI to the computer (you could then route it to a synth). It is not as good as the others, but what do you expect for $100. You will surely find G-VOX on ebay. I have one that I plan on selling on ebay soon. I hope one of these options suits you. later, brian "Shahed Khan" wrote in message om... I am guitarist trying to do some instrumental through my MBOX Protools LE. Can someone suggest any software or plugin that I can use as a synthesizer. Meaning, I want to play keyboard through the guitar. I guess, what I'm asking is, I would like to use the guitar only to play the bass and keyboard. Can someone give me some suggestion? Thanks Shahed |
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Want to use guitar as a synthesizer. HELP!
"Buster Mudd" wrote in message om... (Shahed Khan) wrote in message . com... I am guitarist trying to do some instrumental through my MBOX Protools LE. Can someone suggest any software or plugin that I can use as a synthesizer. Meaning, I want to play keyboard through the guitar. I guess, what I'm asking is, I would like to use the guitar only to play the bass and keyboard. Can someone give me some suggestion? Kill yourself. Now. Yes. Go to the window ... go to the window ... go to the window ... go to the window |
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Want to use guitar as a synthesizer. HELP!
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(Brian Huether) wrote: There are a couple options. Roland makes a device (I forget the name) designed to do just that. It contains a special pickup that senses each note on each string and converts that to MIDI. You can then plug that pickup into the synthesizer that Roland makes that goes with the pickup, or I think you could input it to any synth. But I may be wrong. The pickup connector might be proprietary. The pickup connector - which uses 13 pins - isn't really proprietary. Roland introduced it, but other manufacturers - including Axon and Yamaha - have adopted it as a standard. The Roland divided pickup for guitar is called the GK-2AH http://tinyurl.com/x1lb (there's another one for bass called a GK-2B http://tinyurl.com/x1lf ). The pickup itself is passive, it plugs into either a GR33 synth module http://tinyurl.com/x1lg if you want built-in sounds, or a GI-20 http://tinyurl.com/x1lh if you just want a MIDI signal to hand on to other synths. There is a similar device out there called AXON I think. It also consists of a special pickup and synth. Both these options run around $1000. Axon also makes a 13 pin to MIDI box (AX-100SB has internal sounds, AX-100 just outputs MIDI) http://www.musicindustries.com/axon/ All of the above use an electromagnetic pickup, so need to be fitted to a guitar with steel strings. An alternative is the piezo pickups made by Richard McClish http://www.rmcpickup.com/ These are available as standard on guitars by Godin http://www.godinguitars.com/godinproductlistingp.htm and Brian Moore http://www.brianmooreguitars.com/ (and maybe others, but those are the ones I know about). Having messed with quite a lot of this kit over the years, I've found the best tracking performance *for me* (and I can only speak of how this stuff works for me) comes from plugging a Godin ACS http://www.godinguitars.com/godinacsp.htm into a Roland GR33. I also have a Godin Multiac Jazz http://www.godinguitars.com/godinjazzp.htm which is a better guitar, but it tracks just /slightly/ less well. There seems to be something about the signal from the nylon strings that the converters like. When this stuff is set up well (and all the converters have tweaks for things like pickup sensitivity, that need to be adjusted for your playing style) they can work very well indeed. But they take time to get adjusted, and for you as a player to get accustomed to. If you try even the best of these for 45 minutes in a store you'll walk away convinced it doesn't work, which is the wrong conclusion IMHO. |
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Want to use guitar as a synthesizer. HELP!
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(Shahed Khan) wrote: I am guitarist trying to do some instrumental through my MBOX Protools LE. Can someone suggest any software or plugin that I can use as a synthesizer. Meaning, I want to play keyboard through the guitar. http://www.lateralsol.com/index.htm can be made to work (a friend of mine uses the registered version very successfully), but a) it's Windows only and b) you *do* need to know about configuring your system (softsynths, ASIO drivers etc) to minimise latency or you *will* be disappointed. |
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Want to use guitar as a synthesizer. HELP!
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writes: I am guitarist trying to do some instrumental through my MBOX Protools LE. Can someone suggest any software or plugin that I can use as a synthesizer. Meaning, I want to play keyboard through the guitar. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but from a glance at the LE info on Digi's site, it seems that LE doesn't deal with VST plugins. If not, that's a bit of a drag, because you might be able to cobble together a VST-based solution at very low cost. I've just started playing around with these: http://www.mda-vst.com/effects.htm The vocoder and talk-box plugins take stereo input, letting you use the envelope data from one channel (guitar, let's say) to shape the other channel (your synth pattern, for example). But this would require pre-sequencing the synth, which might be more trouble than what you'd like to do. If you want to go the VST route, I'd look around Sourceforge or Shareware Music Machine for some cheap/freeware programs that deal with VSTs. I know there are a few bare-bones VST hosts out there as well, and at least one plugin that lets you stream to disc. I do this through Peter Nyboer's Max/MSP-based program Girl. If you're on a Mac, you might want to check it out: http://girl.yowstar.com/ If you're not on a Mac, there seem to be a number of PC-based solutions out there, too. HTH, Maurice -- Maurice Rickard http://mauricerickard.com |
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Want to use guitar as a synthesizer. HELP!
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but from a glance at the LE info
on Digi's site, it seems that LE doesn't deal with VST plugins. A VST wrapper for 99 bucks is about to be released. --------------------------------------- "I know enough to know I don't know enough" |
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