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On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Ng Oon-Ee  wrote:

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> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 17:30 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote:

>> 2009/12/1 Ng Oon-Ee

>>

>>         So my basic question is, how would you produce as realistic a

>>         guitar

>>         strum as possible using an electronic keyboard with the

>>         requisite sound

>>         banks? Or should I give it up and just record my guitar

>>         directly (neck

>>         needs straightening...)?

>>

>>

>> Here we have that problem again. I mean, how much are we trying to

>> emulate things these days and getting away with it? I can tell a

>> sampled guitar from expensive records pretty quickly, and it annoys me

>> as fast. I _have_ heard _some_ with excellent results though - I

>> wouldn't be able to tell if I weren't informed. Those are fine, but

>> the majority aren't.

>>

>>

>> A keyboard cannot duplicate the feel and awesomeness of a guitarist,

>> his guitar, and a Neumann off-axis, period ;)

>>

> No arguments here on the last sentence. I'd still like to know how

> feasible it is though, and if anyone has any pointers. Basically, to put

> it very bluntly, I'm a much better keyboardist than guitarist =p.

>

Here's some quick stuff I found via google:
http://www.karma-lab.com/karma/What_Is_KARMA.html
"The technology has been designed to generate unique musical effects

in real-time, allowing effortless creation of spectacular cascades of

complex interweaving notes, techno arpeggios and effects, dense

rhythmic and melodic textures, natural sounding glissandos for

acoustic instrument programs, guitar strumming and finger-picking

simulations, random effects, auto-accompaniment effects, gliding and

swooping portamento and pitch bend effects, and new sound design

possibilities. It has been designed to be not only a valuable tool for

proficient musicians, but a means of interactively controlling music

generation for people of any level of musical skill, including no

musical knowledge whatsoever."
See also the Oasys STR-1:
http://www.korg.co.uk/products/workstations/oasys/ws_oasys6.asp
"The STR-1 Plucked String is a physical model which allows you to

pluck, strike, scrape, or otherwise "excite" the string with 16

different "pluck" types, noise, or any of the onboard or RAM-based PCM

waveforms."
Here's an Oasys demo - I'm not a guitar player so while it sounds like

decent strumming to me - ymmv :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyyQgao-UzM
Here's an M3 strumming demo, a cheaper korg model:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqTDAdQjwb8
Here's the GenoQs Octopus doing strumming:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73jLyZ8e3tM
The latter is "also called "the Chris Franke" effect" , not sure why

but I'm a huge tangerine dream fan.
- R

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