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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.
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.
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.
I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.
Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.