- Jul 19, 2003
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Here's a quick tip for those of you frustrated with the slow tracking speed of Roland guitar synthesizers. I had a nicely typed out post, but the forum ate it and this version is going to be a bit more terse, so deal.
There's a problem with Roland guitar synthesizers-- they're slow to track, and often you will end up with lots of bad notes and general awfulness if you try to play fast. I don't think this is just a technique issue. Al Dimeola can make them work, but a) he's Al Dimeola and b) I think maybe he's using some kind of trickery to make the Roland faster.
What I do to get around the problem is I use a vocoder. Set up the vocoder so that the analog signal from the guitar acts as the modulator wave and the synth tone, or a tone from a software synthesizer, acts as the carrier wave, or vice versa.
This will allow you to play fast and accurately, and the guitar synth will play more like a normal guitar, while still having the richness and endless possibilities of synthesizer tones.
Oh, and you can also have all the bonecrushing distortion you want on the analog tone.
Hi, first post, hope this is useful to someone.
There's a problem with Roland guitar synthesizers-- they're slow to track, and often you will end up with lots of bad notes and general awfulness if you try to play fast. I don't think this is just a technique issue. Al Dimeola can make them work, but a) he's Al Dimeola and b) I think maybe he's using some kind of trickery to make the Roland faster.
What I do to get around the problem is I use a vocoder. Set up the vocoder so that the analog signal from the guitar acts as the modulator wave and the synth tone, or a tone from a software synthesizer, acts as the carrier wave, or vice versa.
This will allow you to play fast and accurately, and the guitar synth will play more like a normal guitar, while still having the richness and endless possibilities of synthesizer tones.
Oh, and you can also have all the bonecrushing distortion you want on the analog tone.
Hi, first post, hope this is useful to someone.