Guitar Synth

[StephenGiles]

i can't get mine to track at all either.  i have found something that gives it some weird sounds, and that's posted in "the long thread".  i'm just curious, do you think that the guy who originally wrote that schematic got it to work at all?  if so, why doesn't it for any of us?  it's very frustrating, and may be a total waste of time.  but i really hope it isn't.

Electronic mags paid a few bucks for circuit ideas - this was probably one of them!

[eetfuk]

i bet you can not get a decent guitarsynth without some sort of MIDI or simular ideas.

I was thinking of building this circuit, even if i were just roughly able to control it..
Mostly because i like using special noises when im performing, but it would realy be cool if i were to strike chords, and you were able to tell them apart atleast...

[Meanderthal]

but it would realy be cool if i were to strike chords, and you were able to tell them apart atleast...

Even IF this worked, it would only work for one note at a time. There is only one oscillator. More elaborate CV ones are similar- a voltage is a voltage, that's it.
With a hex (or quad for bass) pickup you could build a seperate circuit for each string and play chords, but you would need a GOOD RELIABLE circuit to reproduce for each string. Roland managed to pull it off, before MIDI. The modern MIDI ones work this way- hex pickup, seperate tracking for each string, just converted into MIDI messages instead of control voltages.

[puretube]

one could artificially split the signal into 6 frequency-bands (instead of split pickups)
by bandpasses,
and then hex-process it individually...