Do you mean synth sounds using the guitar or keyboard. If you mean guitar I have the Roland system which is quite popular, I can tell you about it if that's what you want.
Jim
Yea, the one with the pickup that mounts at the bridge. Just did some bay searches and Cids estimates are accurate. I really like the possiblities with these.
The Roland system is pretty good. The thing people complain about with these systems is the tracking delay, that is a small delay after you play the note while the system works out which note you played. The latest Roland gear gets around this by starting an approximate note off as soon as it detects the attack from the guitar and then changing the note to the correct one when it recognises it. Sounds bizarre but it seems to be better to hear a wrong note for a few milliseconds and then the correct one rather than a gap followed by the correct note. The problem with this system is that I think it only works for the built in synth unit. If you midi up to a different synth perhaps because the sounds are better than you may notice the tracking delay.
I use a guitar synth quite a bit in my band to be the brass section in all the soul numbers we do and for that it's perfect.
Also Steve Vai used a synth pickup on a floral Jem on Real Illusions
Jim
Roland GR series synthesizer is quite fun but it has its drawbacks. The biggest one is that you have to mount their external pickup and controls to your guitar. This unit is large, bulky and does not flow well with any guitar. The are Roland ready Strats with all this hardware built straight into them but you have to put up with playing a Strat. You can literally get hundreds of instrument tones and a lot of them sound great although some sound cheesy. Synths really let you explore your creativity because some music just sounds better on other instruments and you won't have to actually learn how to play them.
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