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Since about 10 years I use a guitar-synth. My first one was a Roland GR-30. I exchanged it against a GR-33. Because I like to deal with
sounds I was jealous of the keyboarders with their opportunities to use as much different sounds as they want. So I bought a guitar-synth. I took some time to get the right play-feel.
If you play a synth-trumpet, you cannot play like a guitar player, you have to play like a trumpet-player. If you want to know, what you can do with a guitar-synth, listen to “some bytes of nu jazz”, a track I recorded with the Roland GR-33
(espeially the trumpet parts) via MIDI. To play a guitar-synth, you will need a special pickup. Either you have to use a Roland Gk3 and assemble it on your guitar or you have to play a guitar with an built-in-midi-pick-up. Such special guitars are sold by Fender and Godin. If you have purchased a guitar-synth and you have problems and questions, it is a good idea to join the GR 30 discussion group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GR-30/ . This mailing-list will give you not only the opportunity to come in contact with other guitar-synth users, but will help you with its large archive, containing the discussions of the last years.Other user communities you find here. The new GR-20 is only somewhat like a lowgraded GR-33.
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the Axon allows pick-,string-, and fret splittings. The guitar to midi converter is very fast, it has an internal soundmodul, but usually I use the
Axon to play trumpet with an external program: http://www.samplemodeling.com/en/index.php. Here is an example for a trumpet played with the Axon AX 100 and the samplemodelled trumpet: metaphysical cocktail
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If you want to exchange information about guitar-synth with other users, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GR-30/
The list exists for several years and you will find nearly any question answered you have.
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To hear what you can do with the Gr-33, please listen to the “2 short stories for guitar synth”, performed “live” without any overdubs by Ludger Hesse. Another example for using the GR-33 with the Kontakt sampler (NI) you find here.
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