Hello Eric,
You can pack as many DSP's in a keyboard as you like; to a guitarist it will still sound like a keyboard and to a keyboard player it will still sound like a guitar
Paul Drongowski on his site has a great article about this - see http://sandsoftwaresound.net/which-guitar-is-which/
Just reading through the guitar pickup types - you can already tell that there is so much more to this. And yes, you will find lots of suggestions about settings, but can you imagine what it takes for every great guitar solo and sound to research the history of it, their original set-up, what makes them unique, and what it is that took them to their "signature sound" - in order to produce the appropriate samples and settings on a keyboard?
I too am a crazily huge fan of the Santana, Pink Floyd, Alan Parson's, Natharez, **** even Uriah Heep, etc. sounds - and I really wish I had at least a VSTi or something I could use "out-of-the-box" - but to find the one that "nails it" - has in most cases still eluded me :-) And in my thinking, it's not that the Yamaha sound engineers don't want to produce them - it's more like "where do you even start with all that variety?"
So thank you for input, because that is exactly what is needed so the guys at Yamaha can get a feel for what sounds folks are after.
Cheers, Roland
Thank you for the article Roland.
I remember reading it before.
Great job.
There are some great YouTube videos of guys playing distorted guitar solos on a KB.
Given, that it can never be the same as the real instrument, it can be pretty darn close.
After all we are not trying to be the instrument (which of course does not work) but create an illusion and try our best to emulate certain characteristics.
The SA and SA2 voices are of great help and a great starting point.
One guitar I always wanted was a screaming Wah distorted guitar.
The S-970 has a guitar for a great foundation.
After experimenting with the effects I got pretty close and are very happy.
The great thing is, that it works in my Genos ....
The closest to a Santana guitar is the Guitar Hero From the T2, 3, 4
It lives in the legacy folder.
I usually use this one with another guitar to get close to the sound. ...
Santana uses humbucker type guitars like Gibson Les Paul and PRS.
However, nowadays effects, stomper and amps can almost make any guitar sound like anything.
Look at the Taylor T5 ...
There are Stomp boxes to make your electric sound like an acoustic and vice versa.
That being said I saw a guy playing a very convincing Santana sound on a Fender Strat.
That's why I have hope, that even with the samples in the Genos we should be able to make it happen ...
Maybe Yamaha will listen and release a sound pack ...
Or Heidrun gets all inspired, or ...
Best regards
Eric