[atlantaprog] guitarists take note

I thought the guitarists on here might find this interesting:
http://magic.gibson.com/digitalguitar.html

My main guitar is a Les Paul with RMC piezoelectric pickups along with the 
standard magnetics, a preamp, the regular 1/4" jack and the Roland-style 13-pin 
jack.  In other words, it's an integrated replacement for the Roland guitar 
synthesizer driver, and gives you a blend of magnetic, piezo and synth sounds.

Gibson is going to take this a step further by building a line of products, 
including guitars, that use an Ethernet/RJ45-based interface, and it sounds 
pretty sweet.  By making this sort of thing off-the-shelf, hopefully it'll 
become standard and affordable, not to mention well-integrated with a host of 
other products, like sequencing software, guitar synths, effects, et al... _IF_ 
it catches on to the point of overcoming 'format fatigue'.  They say they're 
going to offer this in every Gibson guitar model in the next 18 months.  

Perhaps someday you'll just plug your Flying V into a 3Com hub.  Maybe they 
could get the network utilization lights on the front to double as a strobe 
tuner?  ;-)

Brian


"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet 
sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. 
 Let no such man be trusted." --Shakespeare

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