Hey,
Looks it like you're really putting a lot of thought into your work. I am kind of intrigued by some of what you are describing.
I used to sample rhythm guitar parts myself when Digital Audio recording was limited to DAT tapes. I couldn't quite get the guitar to sound rhythmic enough while playing to the mix so I just sampled some of the bits and triggered them from either pads or keyboard.
Man, I can't believe some of the stuff that I used to do in the 80's when digital recording was still just a rumour.

Hey, you might want to add some glissando guitar to your stuff. Especially to the Planet Outpost. By what you are describing it just cries for some spaced out sustained EBow type sound. YOu ever play glissando or an EBow by chance?
I heard you do some slow attack stuff on the guitar but it sounded like one of the FX on the POD.

I think the glissando will do a fantastic job. ALl you'll need is a long screwdriver, a guitar and some spaced out delay. bit of phaze of flange will be cool too. Steve Hillage was into that when he was writing Blue Room with the Orb.

EBow will be great too. BIg fan of EBow. Hard to play it at first but once you learn it just rocks. I even modified my pickups so the sound doesn't get cancelled out if both pick-ups are turned on. That one needs a lot of delay and mod too.
I just love playing some soft lead and ocasionally putting the EBow closer to the pick ups to get that hard sync like swell.


What I like best about the two is that it ends up sounding like guitar and yet synth like. Results are always killer.
-ED-