It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.
That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.
If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.
It's harder to make real audio than special effects audio.
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