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At 03:42 PM 5/7/97 -0700, you wrote: >> The GK-2A pickup sends an ANALOG signal. it is in fact a >> hexaphonic humbucking magnetic pickup. > >neat, i didn't know that! i have a gr-1 and associated gk-2 that i've >kind >of gotten bored of, but now i'm getting new strange ideas... > >has anyone tried or considered making an adapter to send those six outputs >to a mixer and panning them in the stereo field, or sending each string to >a different effect? it simply throttles the imagination... time to dust >off the ol' soldering iron! > Sure, hex output from guitars is nothing new. That was a big part of the Infinity guitar synth we were developing at g-wiz. A common use is hexaphonic distortion. If you distort each string individually and then mix it together, you don't get the inter-modulation distortion that you get with a normal guitar plugged into a fuzz box. This basically means that you can play distortion chords without the extreme muddiness you usually get. The VG-8 is basically making use of this too. Many of it's functions involve processing each string individually. It opens up a lot of possibilities. I think Matthias has built several processors that relied on hex guitar outputs, as have other people I know. The idea predates Roland by a lot. I know people were experimenting with this in the 70's, and probably well before that. Naturally, none of them were commercially successful..... kim _______________________________________________________ Kim Flint 408-752-9284 VLSI Systems Engineering kflint@chromatic.com Chromatic Research