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InVettagating: Line 6 - Marcus Ryle - Jan. 2006 page 8
Thanks go out to all the Marcus Ryle and Line 6, they have been very kind and helpfull.
Speaking of Variax, one of the things that puzzles is the question of modeling the body / wood of the original guitar for Variax. Does this actually play a role? Actually it does play a factor. The thing with Variax is that the actual, physical instrument, that is the basis of the tone for the Variax. As you know, the Variax is not a synthesizer triggering anything. It’s taking the actual sound of the instrument and putting it through the modeling process to effectively put those strings on a different instrument. So the construction of the instrument is the basic tonal foundation. We understand the specific wood and design of the Variax and use it as the starting point for our modeling process in order to transform it properly into the ending point. Different types of wood can effect the sustain properties, or some resonance. I’d say it’s not as critical as with an acoustic instrument, but it certainly plays a part. Changes of the physical instrument will result in changes in the final sound. That was a fundamental reason why we developed the Variax the way we did, unlike the Roland VG system were you can put the pickup onto any guitar.
The Roland system obviously has some great advantages, however one disadvantage is that the instrument you put it on, and even more importantly, the accuracy of the placement of the hex pickup, can greatly alter what the output of the product is. They don’t really have any control over what the input signal is, because it’s up to the musician, and that could lead to a wide range of output. I don’t know how Roland approached this problem, but I think it would be a challenge for to accurately create models in this environment. That’s why we wanted to create a complete instrument, a complete solution. As you know Vinny, people now put their Variax electronics in other physical instruments. Since the pickup doesn’t change position (because it’s in the bridge), the tonal changes are fairly subtle. Some people might prefer the modeled sound on an instrument that has more or less sustain than the Variax. It might mean that the models aren’t quite as accurate, since the string (amplitude) decay is one of the things modeled, but it’s more important that the musician uses what they like. And in the end, it might not be that important if the banjo rings a little longer then a real banjo might or something like that
Well Marcus this would mean that you could model different strings as well? Well, yes. We did that on the Variax Bass, for example. One of the features is the ability to choose between round and flat wound strings. And on the Variax Acoustic, we have a model that makes a steel string into a nylon string. We use techniques such as dynamically altering the harmonic content to accomplish this.
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