[LAU] you guys saw this digital, stringless electric guitar?

[david]

Hartmut Noack wrote:

> Am 23.01.2010 08:10, schrieb david:
>> http://www.misadigital.com/
>>
>> OSS and Linux powered!
> 
> Its basically a gentoo-tablet with a fretboard attached. The fretboard,
> whatsoever is not much more than what you find in gaming-interfaces. It
> does neither allow bendings nor hammering or tapping. The Touchpad
> allows for triggering notes with differing velocity  and can control 3
> more parameters via MIDI-CC. Since touching the pad always has to
> trigger a note to do something hearable this breks down to 3 parameters
> in total since velocity will be doubeled. Since the firmware is open it
> should be possible to add some more controls but the problem is, that
> the pad is not pressure-sensitive so you will allways get on/off only...
> not to mention the limitations of the fretboard that is not much more
> then a note-namer

Sheesh. Too bad.

> So it seems to me a toy, that could be a nice-to-have but compared to
> what one can achieve with a Zeta plus kaos-pad or a wavedrum it is not
> in the same league.

Sounds more worthwhile just to get a MIDIfied guitar or such equipment.

> The maker of the device does not react very relaxed to criticism.
> Yesterday I asked him about these limitations in his forum. He reacted
> quite allergic, stating that I would not be competent enough to judge
> his instrument for I would lack the knowledge in electronic music. Later
> another visitor joined the discussion, backing my point of view. Shortly
> after that the forum was closed....

Bummer. Attitude like that doesn't bode well.

> we'll see, what will happen, if the device is being shipped and the
> first user-reviews rush in...

Just glanced at his site, looks like the "first production run" hasn't 
been completed yet.

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