Getting a guitar to sound like a piano?

[Instrospection]

Sort of off topic, but a melodica is way cool----if you get one that's fully chromatic with all the keys, it's even better. It plays like a piano, but it sounds more like a harmonica/ accordian. The only problem is that they're a bitch to tune.....the factory Hohner ones, the reeds are usually out of tune.

[freetime]

get a midi guitar

[tonnu]

it'd be much easier to try to mimic a rhodes

[Raskolnikovs axe]

sound convincingly like a piano? no...but if you want to sound piano-esque, use a clean sound that's compressed and tap with both hands - it'll get you in the ball park of the attack and sustain of a piano, plus it'll allow you to play distinct parts in different registers with each hand.

[freetime]

+1^

 

I've heard piano like tapping before

[BoredGuitarist7]

Keytar?

[keppy]

Sort of off topic, but a melodica is way cool----if you get one that's fully chromatic with all the keys, it's even better. It plays like a piano, but it sounds more like a harmonica/ accordian. The only problem is that they're a bitch to tune.....the factory Hohner ones, the reeds are usually out of tune.

 

Aye! I have a Hohner student melodica...pretty fun stuff. Ridiculously easy to play too. I think mine is tuned to A443 or something like that. Sounds a lot like the right-hand manual of an accordion. A lot of fun mic'd through my pedalboard

[amesace]

 

 

 

I have one of those! It's weird

[nwtsnma]

heavy strings, light pick, pick at the octave harmonic

[GaijinGweilo]

 

buy a piano

 

 

there's always a jerkoff

[Uma Floresta]

Without using effects, you might try a hollowbody jazz guitar with heavy strings. And of course, don't use vibrato or sliding/hammer-on techniques.

[GURREN LAGANN]

In theory a very fast processor with low latency should be able to read your pitch, and output a piano sound that most closely matches that pitch and velocity.

 

I'm not exactly sure how MIDI pickups work but I think they just capture the signal in a way that makes it a lot easier for this to happen.

[Raskolnikovs axe]

 

In theory a very fast processor with low latency should be able to read your pitch, and output a piano sound that most closely matches that pitch and velocity. I'm not exactly sure how MIDI pickups work but I think they just capture the signal in a way that makes it a lot easier for this to happen.

 

 

That's exactly how MIDI pickups work. A standard MIDI pickup on a guitar is actually 6 pickups - one for each string, because a computer can read individual notes much easier than trying to figure out a complex audio signal like a chord.

[L6Sguy]

[OrangeLazarus]

 

i definitely think that you could do it with some clever use of compression, ring mod, phaser, filter modulator, bitcrusher, orgasmic regurgitator, frequency emaciator, and fuzz.

 

 

NICE.

 

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[Let It Burn...]

 

there's always a jerkoff

 

 

It's true. I'm sick at people thinking they can mimick a guitar to sound 100% like another instrument.

 

It will not happen, never ever. If you want a nice pianosound, buy a stage piano. If you want a synth, buy a synth and not a goddamn synth pedal that's just a fuzz with an autowah.

 

/rant, let the {censored} storm commence

[Little_Buster]

Roland synths.

or possibly the EHX P.O.G

[Liberty Belle]

EHX HOG makes it sound like an organ 100% convincingly.

organ=cool piano!

[SpectralJulian]

 

 

 

Dude that's awesome, seems like peaks in the guitar trigger the synth sounds.

[SpectralJulian]

 

It's true. I'm sick at people thinking they can mimick a guitar to sound 100% like another instrument. It will not happen, never ever. If you want a nice pianosound, buy a stage piano. If you want a synth, buy a synth and not a goddamn synth pedal that's just a fuzz with an autowah. /rant, let the {censored} storm commence

 

 

 

What if you want your guitar to sound like a guitar that's imitating something else?

[Let It Burn...]

 

What if you want your guitar to sound like a guitar that's imitating something else?

 

 

then go back to the 80ies

[mrfreeman]

Listen to the last track on John Mayer's "On His Own" (Nokia Theatre, Dec 08, LA).

 

Clarity (Lost) by coldplay. He gets a convincing guitar sound with modulation and delay.

 

The delay has one repeat at about 50ms and he's got a compresser to kill the sustain. There's a chorus or harmoniser thing going on very quietly in there too.