A History Of Guitar Synths
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MIDI Guitars - The Best Guitar Controllers
Yamaha came out with their own futuristic MIDI guitar the G10 and that was strung with all the same gauge strings. These only had to be set to a comfortable tension as they produced no sound. The weirdest was probably the synth axe with its angled neck, equally spaced frets and separate picking and fretting strings. It was incredibly expensive and not very guitarist friendly. Today we have pedals that are not quite synths but change the sound of the guitar in radical ways to sound like one. For example the Electro-Harmonics 9 series pedals can emulate polyphonic organs, synths, string machines and so on by combining polyphonic pitch tracking with some clever w
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