Everything you wanted to know about StringPort...

... and weren't afraid to ask.

Hi,

Thanks for the interest and discussion about the StringPort. If you don't mind, I'd like to start a series of short discussions that explore its design and functionality.

I started building guitar synths in 1979 (just one year after Roland did - GR500) and have been at it ever since. I studied electronic music (and classical guitar) in school, and took it as a personal slight that, as a string player, I would be continuously marginalized from all the flexibility and potential of electronics and computers. A little righteous anger goes a long way.

The topics, in rough order, will be:

True synthesis control and acoustic representation
Synful
Direct string driven synthesis
Polyphonic signal processing
Notation
Modeling
Phase Vocoders
Open Software model
Hardware details
Future plans
oh yeah - midi.

This is going out to midiguitar@yahoogroups.com & vg-8@yahoogroups.com. If you want to re-post anywhere, go for it.

Thanks,

Keith

Keith McMillen
www.keithmcmillen.com
www.beamfoundation.org
Music For A New Reason