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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Technology
Recently we found out about the MISA digital guitar, a project by Michael Z, a software engineer from Sydney in Australia.
Would you like to enhance your laptop project or want to rock out on a guitar by just plugging it into your laptop? Read what Michael has to say about this guitar with a touch screen that could play an important role in the future of electronic music.
What's the difference between playing a traditional guitar and the MISA? OK - you'll have to play the touch screen instead of snares, but how to play the neck?
The buttons on the neck are each assigned a note, that corresponds to the note played on the guitar. So when you press a note, and then press the touchscreen - the note will play. The six rows of buttons/"strings" behave like real strings in that you only hear maximum one note per string. This allows for techniques like…
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