It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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.
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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.
For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different 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.
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.
I'm basically a keyboard player, so if it's got a keyboard on it, I'll give it a shot. I played a lot of organ in the early days. I can make a few chords on guitar, but that's about it.
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.