To dream the impossible dream

[sostark]

My second idiotic post/thread in less than a week!

I feel like I know the answer to this question already and maybe I'm just posting it because I'm hoping it will awaken some circuit builder to construct the thing

What do you think it would take to create a harpsichord/rocksichord effect pedal? Does one exist? Is it being wood shopped by EHX? I've never messed with MIDI and I don't think I want to start... can you imagine fuzzy harpsichord popping out of a CT5/Modulation Device/ etc etc etc?!

Please throw some shade my way or better yet--link me to the video of a thing that already exists? Or maybe drop your dream pedals specs/effects (an animal sound emulator? a xylophone pedal?) or direct me to the correct thread to get lost in this sort of folly.

[Chankgeez]

I know of no such pedal. There probably isn't a standalone pedal that'd do that. Maybe one of the EHX keyboard things?

You could definitely do something like that with a guitar synth. That's probably not the answer you're looking for.

If it were me, I'd just get a Rock-Si-Chord. I've been diggin' some autoharp lately anyway. Wanna hear some of that through fuzz.

[echorec]

You've got four options and none of them involve stuff that can fit into a 1590BB enclsoure. For a variety of reasons there isn't a harpsichord pedal already in the market (supply & demand, months or years of R&D for a limited market, all that so-called real world business logistics stuff).

(1) With a guitar synth, you could turn your guitar into a harpsichord, electric piano, violin, et cetera. There's nothing to be intimidated about or special MIDI course necessary. You just need the right hardware. If you can use a computer or a smartphone, then you can use a guitar synth. I imagine rfurtkamp could tell you which of Roland's GR (or another company) units has the best tracking and the best sound engines for the most convenient price point.

(2) You could get a rack unit with preloaded instrument banks, and an external signal convertor (audio signal to MIDI), which would allow you to trigger acoustic instruments and other sound engines without needing a MIDI pickup installed in the guitar.

(3) The third option would involve the Artiphon Instrument One. With that you could fret and strum the instrument like a guitar, while triggering its internal sound engines ($399) and then run those sounds into your stompboxes.

http://artiphonstore.com/

(4) Get a synth with the desired keyboard sounds, and then pair this synth with floor effects (like any non-knucklehead would do).

[rfurtkamp]

Yea, can just take the harpsichord options in a GR-55 (of which there are five built in, and are editable in spades), and route it out (or internally to its effects).

Not cheap, but will give you full poly and track well if the pickup is installed properly.

I've used it from time to time, I can tell you that fuzzy harpsichord ends up getting pretty blurry fast.

For obscene "things that should not be", I'm partial to running a fake Coral Electric Sitar into a Triple Rec model.

[rfurtkamp]

Harpsichord into that level of gain just gets ugly and not in a good way.

I had hoped for better, but it's just not there.

Maybe parallel stuff will help it!