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What do I think will happen with guitar synth in the next couple of years? I don't think it will fizzle out. I think there will be a kind of a SynthAxe revolution; they've started something -the digital guitar controller - that I think a lot of people will latch onto in one way or another, with a lot of different approaches. There will be guitar controllers that don't operate on the pitch-to- glitch approach; it's too complicated and too unreliable. And if you're playing a guitar synthesizer, why do you want to do harmonics or certain things that you can do best on a regular guitar? Use a guitar for those things. There are so many other things you can do on a synthesizer, so why do that? You can't do harmonics on a piano, either, but it's still a great instrument. I don't think MIDI will stay-at least the way it is now. MIDI isn't very bright for guitar. It was designed for transmitting keyboard information, which isn't nearly as complicated as what you need for a guitar. Pitch-bending can be a real problem, for example. So, new systems are bound to come up. | What do I think will happen with guitar synth in the next couple of years? I don't think it will fizzle out. I think there will be a kind of a SynthAxe revolution; they've started something -the digital guitar controller - that I think a lot of people will latch onto in one way or another, with a lot of different approaches. There will be guitar controllers that don't operate on the pitch-to- glitch approach; it's too complicated and too unreliable. And if you're playing a guitar synthesizer, why do you want to do harmonics or certain things that you can do best on a regular guitar? Use a guitar for those things. There are so many other things you can do on a synthesizer, so why do that? You can't do harmonics on a piano, either, but it's still a great instrument. I don't think MIDI will stay-at least the way it is now. MIDI isn't very bright for guitar. It was designed for transmitting keyboard information, which isn't nearly as complicated as what you need for a guitar. Pitch-bending can be a real problem, for example. So, new systems are bound to come up. | ||
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