Misa Digital Guitar - the future?

[GaryG]

http://www.misadigital.com/index.html

Well, maybe not. Could lead to some interesting techniques though. Looks cool in a retro 'buck rogers' kinda way.

[shanecgriffo]

i don't think i'd ever trade my strat for one!
(but i'd have one as well maybe )
It sounds a bit digital-but i guess thats the idea

[RunBeerRun]

The neck looks cool, but the right handed use looks like a hassle. He hasn't set a price on it yet.

[stk]

Looks like it'd be cool to have a play with.

What's more embarrassing in the middle of a show: changing a broken string or rebooting your bluescreened guitar?

[GaryG]

The neck looks cool, but the right handed use looks like a hassle.

Funny, I thought the opposite; bit boring you have to stick to conventional 'fretting' while being free to develop new right handed techniques.

[Tony Ostinato]

the sound is up to the sound generators its hooked up to, theres no internal sounds, at all, ever.

i think that was a good move.

[pandashake]

Is there a drool emoticon? Seriously, that thing looks AWESOME.

[Max el Belga]

Where can I get a free example to try out at home ?

Max... .. .

[Hink]

I've said it before, I don't dont want a guitar smarter than me

[zerocrossing]

If they can keep production costs low this thing might take off in a big way. I keep wondering why companies like Starr and Eigenlabs don't offer a stripped down entry level instrument that lives in the range of a decent (think novation quality) MIDI controller.

[Muzik 4 Machines]

wannnnttttt!!!!!!!

[Hink]

am I the only one that got a cold chill from

Guitars by their very nature have limitations. To create sound you need to hit a string, so that the sound at its most intense point is always the beginning of the pluck. The left hand controls what notes to play, and the right hand controls when to play these notes and the intensity of the notes. Effects can be inserted into the signal chain, but they are usually foot pedals which makes the experience of controlling effects disjointed from what your hands are doing. Plus, you can only really make use of one pedal at a time. Even in the (rare) case that controls are mounted on the guitar, the hand needs to switch between strings and controls. This may be okay if you only use effects occasionally, but when every note you play needs the controls set differently - good luck with that.

Electronic music cannot be played effectively with such constraints.

[Muzik 4 Machines]

maybe, i think he's pretty right, i had like 25 knobs and switched mounted on one of my guitars, plus a kaoss pad 2 on another one and it was nice, but i had to stop playing to actually use the efects (or fingertap)

the touchscreen right hand is really what i was hoping for for a long time, and switches on the neck, oh my, im coming home baby!

[GaryG]

am I the only one that got a cold chill from ...

They're talking about a way of playing music/syle of music that's pretty far removed from, what i'd consider, traditional guitar playing.

If you want to play effect heavy stuff with lots of real time modulations etc. then they have a point (wotcha m4m! ) But i can think of many, many players who get by with the limitations of two hands and a foot just fine and certainly don't suffer from lack of expression.

[fedexnman]

just seen this today in future music mag, this would be cool for a guitarist to play synth stuff without having to use a keyboard controller ?