Microkorg guitar

[stoppanda]

Alright guys. I got a Microkorg recently, and after reading the manual I found that manuals do a good job explaining how to use the equipment but a poor job explaining wjat the equipment is doing. So i read a couple of books on analog synthesizers, and i was a little disappointed at the patch limitations of my microkorg.

So here is my problem.

I want to plug a guitar into the microkorg and play with it.
At first it seemed like I could only delay and modulate the signal. but then i looked at the vocoder, and found that when i play the guitar and hold a key, some envelope follower obviously detects the guitar's envelope and uses that to control the amplitude of the signal.

That is fine, but that's only half of my equation. I noticed that the pitch of the oscillatoris dependent on which key is pressed, rather than which fret is held. Is there something on the korg that can let the guitar control the oscillator instead of the amp? If not, is there some kind of midi patch that can be used to like... track the pitch of the guitar and relate it to the oscillator?

My aim here is basically to eliminate the keyboard, though i love it, and control the synth completely with my guitar.

Thanks a bunch!

[m.z.]

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[soundwave106]

Most synthesizers cannot convert audio to the oscillator. Vocoders are simple another way of processing the synthesizer's audio, in this case it is a modulation with something else (usually voices).



Some synthesizers allow you to run the audio through the filters, I don't think the Microkorg does... but I don't think that is what you are after.

You want a MIDI guitar pickup, like the Roland GK3. After installing this, you can hook your guitar's MIDI to the keyboard, and after that your guitar will trigger the keyboard's notes (with limitations).