[LAU] Live bass guitar -> analog synth on a 2007 laptop: viable?

[Artem Vakhitov]

On 20.06.2014 3:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Rakarrak's audio to midi conversion does work for some kinds of guitar
> playing. I never tested it using a bass, it likely will become harder to
> use it the lower the string sound its, this already was an issue for old
> MIDI pickups. I don't know the quality of modern MIDI pickups, but I
> guess it's better you get such a pickup. Without a MIDI pickup the
> conversion only does work monophonic.
>
> As for the synth available for Linux, assumed there should be no xruns
> at usable latencies, the sound of an onboard audio device unlikely will
> be good enough for usage in a band, but the available synth might
> satisfy your needs assumed you're using a high quality sound card.

Will try Rakarrack. BTW, I don't need MIDI as such, I just need a way to 
control an analog synth using the audio signal from bass guitar.

Regards,
Artem Vakhitov