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

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.