You can buy hexaphonic pickups to retrofit a guitar that give you six separate outs. While a Freq-to-volts converter is a problem, you could still do a lot of cool things like stick a sub-octave multiplexer on each string, envelope follower, filters, and run them all through a triple res filter.
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RE: [motm] Guitar synthm MOTM style?
2000-03-24 by Tkacs, Ken