The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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.
With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.
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.