[atlantaprog] Re: guitarists take note

Yeah, I remember them announcing this last year.  Totally awesome.  The 
cool thing is that each string will have its own pickup.  So, for example, 
if you have an Eventide Orville you could have the lower 3 strings 
distorted and the upper 3 strings clean!  It's great that someone is 
finally making a notable advance on the electric guitar.

--
George

At 09:37 PM 5/30/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>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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