[atlantaprog] Re: guitarists take note

Just a couple quick notes on both of these posts:

I looked at Magic when it was first introduced.  I think I still have
the protocol specs laying around.  Gibson was really excited about the
possibilities of using Magic to wirelessly connect stage equipment to
house Pas, mixers, etc which are usually 2/3-3/4 of the way back on the
floor.

Without going into too much boring technical detail, with a wireless
setup it would be trivial to "attach" your own "instrument" onto their
network.  There is no encryption built-in, and it is UDP-based.

What this means to the laymen...  Imagine going to a Metallica concert,
and whipping out your Palm Pilot or WinCE handheld device, running a
program that will map out each device on their "network" (guitars, amps,
mics, etc.) and during Kirk Hammets guitar solo using your little PDA to
blast "NAPSTER RULES.  KIRK YOU SUCK" or something like that all over
the house PA!  Hell, you could even cut off his solo, and use Hetfield's
channel to broadcast a live Neil Diamond bootleg over the PA.  Now THAT
would be fun........!


OK, as far as the "notable advance on the electric guitar" thing...

Roland did this almost 8 years ago when they introduced their VG-8,
which used the 13-pin GK pickup.  Each individual string has it's own
pickup (There are other 13-pin compatable setups as well these days -
RMC, Shadow, GraphTech, etc.).

With the VG-8, 8EX, and VG-88 you have a different pickup for every
string.  You can program in alternate tunings on these things, and
switch between different alternate tunings without changing guitars.
Just by pressing on a pedal!  Hell, you can change the tunings of your
guitar many times within the same song without missing a beat.  You can
create a "virtual pickup" whose low pole piece is at the 6th string,
12th fret position, and whose high pole piece s where the high pole
piece on a strat bridge pickup's 1st string pole piece is located.  You
can then move the location of that 6th string pole piece from the 12th
fret to the normal bridge pickup position in REAL TIME via the use of an
expression pedal.  Now THAT is cool and innovative!

Line6's Variax operates on a similar principle, but it is all integrated
into a small circuit, and does not do any amp or effects modelling, but
models 9 guitars.  It's fairly limited, but produces decent results.  I
bet the "version 2" of this will be incredible!

There really is lots of cool stuff going on with guitar from electronics
to composite and other materials, to amps, etc.

Alex F/Brain21

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:atlantaprog-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of George Menhorn
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 11:02 PM
> To: atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [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.
>

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