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You think the guitar you own is high tech? Well does it have a 500MHz processor? Can you even SSH into it? I thought not. This MISA - Touch Pad Digital Guitar is packed with tons of technology but thankfully it outputs MIDI so you can just jack it into your existing gear and jam away. Thanks Michael “The guitar itself is CNC machined out of solid ABS plastic. This is an extremely solid body, not like injection moulded plastic which is thin, lightweight and hollow. The screen is an 8.4″ LCD 800×600 resolution. The CPU is a 500MHz x86 compatible AMD Geode which makes life easier, I guess. The operating system is Gentoo Linux which I’ve stripped down to be as lean as possible. Graphics (framebuffer access) is done with DirectFB which acts as a fast layer on top of the hardware. The neck is 144 “keycaps” sitting on top of a special keymat that I had tooled. They are not pressure sensitive - but I made the decision early on not to include this because I don’t feel it is neccessary, it would make the instrument harder to play and less reliable.”
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January 19th, 2010
Awesome! I am genuinely impressed. The fact that it is midi compatible opens it up to a world of already available kit! I’m just wondering how much it is - still nothing on the website.
January 19th, 2010
Man that is truly impressive…That’s one of the coolest innovations I’ve seen in quite a while…I’m a musician/recording artist and I could already see my self using this…I posted your vid on my facebook to share with friends…
January 19th, 2010
awessssssssssssoooooooooome coooooooooooooooooool
January 20th, 2010
That is amazing. Hopefully some more specs will be posted soon (and source code)
January 20th, 2010
hmm, i’d prefer a fender strat better, but this one’s pretty cool
January 20th, 2010
this thing… wow !
i dont even know a lot about electronic music, though i lieks it. and yet i can see that this device will change le mundo!
it freakin rocks!
January 20th, 2010
thats sooooo awesome. great skills on the riff btw. don’t know whats more impressive the fact it looks great or the fact that its fully functional. since it runs ‘nix, it would be awesome to have a guitar tutor. maybe have some lightup keys on the neck in v2.0?
January 21st, 2010
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