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Going back a few loops ago, I always enjoyed when you would see a particuliar instrument, but then said instrument makes very different sounds; such as using an E-Bow to get duduk-like sounds out of an electric guitar, or watching people get more koto-like sounds out of said instrument. Found it was even more fun on my end to have just my head visible to the audience and the rest of my body and Roland GR-707 hidden, so they think I'm playing a keyboard of some kind and after a bit, walk out with the guitar slung on my front and doing a pretty decent job of hiding the E-Bow under my hand and have a few of the people react with a touch of shock as it hits 'em that a guitar shouldn't sound like that! Really got this from Miles Davis doing it so often in the 80's; switching instrument parts around. As for going the whole pitch to signal bit, I found that lugging the equipment around was not always as cracked up as it used to be, when I was more active in my playing. Guess I'm getting lazier in my older age. LOL! Does this mean that I'm gonna give up on my Yamaha G50 or Roland GR-30, ... of course not! And now, back to fiddling with a Steinberger... Lee On Nov 29, 2004, at 7:31 AM, goddard.duncan@mtvne.com wrote: > >>1) Am I OK / comfortable with producing sounds from something that > is called a synthesizer? > 2) Do I like the sounds I can create with a synthesizer?<< > > I'd have to add something to this along the lines of "is having a > familiar control surface (i.e. the fingerboard instead of a keyboard) > sufficient compensation for the rubbish response of a midi-tracking > system?" > > my own experience with a gr-something & a gi-10 both left something to > be desired in terms of what I was trying to perform. simple timing > latency one can get used to, but when the mistracking & > misinterpretation of one's nuances are also factored in, it becomes > very frustrating. > > (fwiw, I have "hex" pickups on a strat, a fender VI & a precision. > curiously, the VI behaves the best.) > > so, when I want to play a keyboard part, I use a keyboard. > that's not to say I've given up. I'll be revisiting this issue today, > in fact- my peavey cyberbase just showed up..... > > d. > > > > *********************************************************************** > **** > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > > The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user > of the e-mail address to which it was addressed, and may also > be privileged. If you are not the addressee of this e-mail you may > not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it or any part of it > in any form whatsoever.If you have received this e-mail in error, > please e-mail the sender by replying to this message. > > It is your responsibility to carry out appropriate virus and other > checks to ensure that this message and any attachments do not > affect your systems / data. Any views or opinions expressed in this > e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily > represent those of MTV Networks Europe unless specifically stated, > nor does this message form any part of any contract unless so stated. > > MTV reserves the right to monitor e-mail communications from > external/internal sources for the purposes of ensuring correct > and appropriate use of MTV communication equipment. > > MTV Networks Europe > > *********************************************************************** > **** > "Vi Viri Venivirsium Vivius Vicci." - Faustus