Linux-based Guitar Midi Controller Does Away with Strings
Linux-based Guitar Midi Controller Does Away with Strings
Posted 01/19/2010 at 6:12am
| by Paul Lilly
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If there's one thing Guitar Hero and Rock Band taught us, it's that we don't need strings to be a rock star and rip gnarly riffs with the best of them. Sure, they're just video games, but the Misa Digital Guitar is the real deal, and it's just the kind of stringless guitar living room legends have been waiting for.
Consider the Misa a glorified MIDI controller whose sound "is limited only by what you connect it to." There are 144 note buttons for the left hand to sift through, while the right hand rocks out by tapping a touch screen control pad. And of course it's powered by Linux, which means the door has been left wide open for programmers to conjure up some funky modifications.
We can already sense the blood boiling from traditional guitarists who see this as yet another abomination of music, but if it helps any, Misa's designers admit their creation shouldn't be compared to acoustic or electric guitars saddled with strings. After all, "those are different instruments, for different art forms, for different music. This is electronic music."
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JohnP
January 19, 2010 at 1:07pm
Raw hamburger is what my fingertip feel like after trying to play guitar. With this, you can get 3/4 of the way to a real guitar sound, depending on the electronics of course.
Will stringless guitars take over like electronic keyboards did to pianos?
Biceps
January 19, 2010 at 11:19am
Eat your heart out, Guitar Hero!
This has been a long time coming. Now, if they can hook it up to a PS3, kids can start learning how to play real instruments again!
quantumnerd
January 19, 2010 at 12:33pm
I don't get it. I'm not saying guitar hero is REAL guitar, but everyone seems to hate it. It's a decent game that lets you play songs you might like. I play it as well as three other instruments (INCLUDING REAL GUITAR) so I don't get what the fuss is about.
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Zefir
January 19, 2010 at 7:47am
Actually reminds me of Matt Bellamy's guitar, with the touch pad. Cool idea.
Neufeldt2002
January 19, 2010 at 7:05am
That's actually pretty cool. Although I would imagine it would take some time (unlike GH) to master.
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