[LAU] Possible to have realistic guitar strumming sounds using my keyboard?

[robert lazarski]

2009/12/1 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 07:58 -0300, robert lazarski wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 17:30 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote:
>> >> 2009/12/1 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>
>>
>> Here's some quick stuff I found via google:
>>
>> http://www.karma-lab.com/karma/What_Is_KARMA.html
>>
>> "The technology has been designed to generate unique musical effects
>> in real-time, allowing effortless creation of spectacular cascades of
>> complex interweaving notes, techno arpeggios and effects, dense
>> rhythmic and melodic textures, natural sounding glissandos for
>> acoustic instrument programs, guitar strumming and finger-picking
>> simulations, random effects, auto-accompaniment effects, gliding and
>> swooping portamento and pitch bend effects, and new sound design
>> possibilities. It has been designed to be not only a valuable tool for
>> proficient musicians, but a means of interactively controlling music
>> generation for people of any level of musical skill, including no
>> musical knowledge whatsoever."
>>
>> See also the Oasys STR-1:
>>
>> http://www.korg.co.uk/products/workstations/oasys/ws_oasys6.asp
>>
>> "The STR-1 Plucked String is a physical model which allows you to
>> pluck, strike, scrape, or otherwise "excite" the string with 16
>> different "pluck" types, noise, or any of the onboard or RAM-based PCM
>> waveforms."
>>
>> Here's an Oasys demo - I'm not a guitar player so while it sounds like
>> decent strumming to me - ymmv :
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyyQgao-UzM
>>
>> Here's an M3 strumming demo, a cheaper korg model:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqTDAdQjwb8
>>
>> Here's the GenoQs Octopus doing strumming:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73jLyZ8e3tM
>>
>> The latter is "also called "the Chris Franke" effect" , not sure why
>> but I'm a huge tangerine dream fan.
>>
>> - R
>
> Thanks, I was just reading Korg's site on their Oasys. Basically what I
> draw is that Karma is specific to the Oasys (which is already out of
> production, and is probably way out of my budget + not available out
> here in the boondocks).
>
> Its pretty cool that there are machines to do this though. Which seems
> to indicate it isn't possible or is very hard with a 'typical' Korg.
>
>

The second demo I gave was korg M3 based which also comes in a rack.
Either one of these options is _much_ cheaper than an Oasys:

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/M3-Module/
http://cgi.ebay.com/Korg-M3M-Synthesizer-Workstation-Sampler-Module-M3-BIN_W0QQitemZ370096589552QQcmdZViewItemQQptZKeyboards_MIDI?hash=item562b79caf0

- R