2SYNts- regular guitar to poly MIDI and synth

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Oh ty!-
you made my day Dasheesh 8D

There will be more releases of this soon as far as the synth,Reaktor build and 64 bit VSTs, first jBridge then native

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Hiya,
I built this in FSx64 bit beta now-
v1984 in the first post.
It's working nice too.
I can't provide the schem coz u won't be able to load it yet.
Check it out if you need a 64-bit version that performs satisfyingly.
nJoy!8D

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1985 up- small tweak

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1986-
started smoothing a sine oscillator to feed the detector

I'm gonna tackle regular guitar tr connection
Last edited by nix808 on Tue Sep 25, 2018 10:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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I have an update once more.
I think this is the last update before version2,
which will happen when the source can be opened in Flowstone retail.
It seems to work fine now,
I have been dealing with confirmation bias for years-
ie. being sure my latest trick has got it,
hmm maybe it's a fine instrument now
If you'd like try it again 8D
I had to take away the sine oscillator,
it created instability on held notes.
The x64 .dll is once again included.

I will be attempting to make impressive demos, now that it's finished(again hah :D ).

I have had 8 custom breakout boxes made. They are a simple affair- and we can make more now more easily after the first run. They are wall outlet powered, and feature highest quality 13 pin jacks. I'll up a couple of photos of my current setup now that I have locked it down, including the box. The plugins are designed for an active Roland GK3 hex pickup.

Hope you enjoy my lengthy project-
and good times all

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1991 up
further tweaks +
velocity is working again

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1992 up
see first post 8D

I focussed on the harmonic in this release.
Although by default, all the notes contain a lot of first harmonic content,
all but the 5th and 7th fret can be sufficiently mitigated.
So instead of an across the board harmonic quashing-
the 7th particularly has been adjusted for.
I can nearly make it impossible to play the harmonic intentionally,
but this is not great,
coz the high notes cease to register to a degree.
Instead of allowing the high notes to all play in a chord of open and 24th fret,
I have blocked the 7th fret(a fifth) harmonic as much as I can,
while allowing the fret 24 to play when not in a chord with an open string.
The GK3, although amazing,
does bleed between pickups some. The chord causes the fret 24 to play less than 100% of the time.
It is a compromise, but I'm finding it necessary atm.
If you'd like to try it, the unruly harmonic at 7th is tamed as much as possible.
It can be tried by playing the 5th & 7th fret harmonics intentionally.
The fifth will now not play at all now I think, no matter how sweet u hit it.
Please try again, this compromise may remain though.

Also- I tweaked the trig mode to be true to pitch better,
just sorta put the filters in a better rough config for the mode

Rock on!

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1993 up
It has full range again 8D
I got a bit of the harmonic quash working.
Maybe it's novel-
I call it an auto-compensatory subtraction filter
The fifth and seventh fret harmonics are damped a lot more, while preserving the ~22 fret over open chord
The Reaktor ensemble also has been updated
njoy!

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v2 up!
I used a half band band pass to mitigate the harmonic,
and also the ACSF(auto-compensatory subtractive filter)
Both of these are more effectual than a double-band notch.

There is a new build for Reaktor called FretKeys, which is AMDF based and plays differently.
AMDF is a technique that compares the incoming signal with a delayed version and compares to see which delay length is most similar. The most similar delay length is the pitch.
This one utilises pitch bend, so bending sub semitone and unquantized is possible.

All my strings are flat wound C-strings(note 48, .711mm, 028 gauge) now,
so it's necessary to string a guitar for this particularly.

hope ur diggin' it all -Nick

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thanks Nick

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very welcome!
It's not frustrating now for me to play it
Let me know how it plays if you're keen to get the strings etc

Peeps you can test these with a normal electric-
detune regular D to C, and plug it into one of the plug's inputs,
then play the C/D string
This can give you an idea if you want to get the hex bobbins

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Hiya,
new build up for the Windows VSTfx

I have taken down the source coz I have had a real nice surprise making a ts guitar lead connection into a poly synth.
I am going to try make a professional go of it.

The hex builds are still available for Windows, but I wanted to pull the source,
as hopefully I can become a little pro outfit.

njoy the guitar tek as always 8D

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really neat stuff dude!

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Thanks Faxi!
In truth a lot of the filtering work has been a muddle-
the architecture devices to send MIDI etc., IMO have been neat for a long time

This project, I hope it's getting very neat indeed if you'd like to play guitar synth,
either with hex or TS, in MIDI or in stream

It still is pretty CPU costly, but latency seems good and RAM is nothingish

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can u use this for example midi keyboard to?

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