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.
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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.
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 you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
I'm not a good guitar player.
Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.
I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.