Wood, strings, vibrations ... I hope that the guitars could resist the lure of technology along ? He thought an Australian engineer to stake the foundation of good old violin with a new digital guitar. In reality, the same inventor said that his "Misa" does not want to be a replica of a traditional guitar, but rather a completely new instrument: Let's see what it is.
Michael, father of the digital guitar, it takes just to clarify what his intentions: "I also love the traditional electric guitar, I learned to appreciate it and know what are the chances ... a guitar ; beautiful because its sound is generated by the vibration of a rope that interferes with a magnetic flux induced by an electric voltage, which is then amplified. Why you should mimic that phenomenon? It is perfection. This is pure nature and then analog. Me with my guitar digital Misa I do not want to replicate a traditional guitar. "
Misa In fact, his guitar, which says he has dreamed of since a kid, aside from the shape has nothing to do with a normal guitar. It 'made of plastic and the handle has 144 buttons, and instead of pick up, under the right hand, there is a display of 8.4 inch LCD touch-sensitive. Its operation is controlled by a PC-compatible processor with a Linux open source operating system and is compatible Midi. It can then be connected to any sound source (keyboards, expanders, samplers, etc..) To offer an infinite variety of sounds (the guitar, piano, drums etc. ..) that can also be operated in or register with a normal computer.
tapping the screen with your right hand (that of the pick) will produce the necessary impetus to play the notes selected using the buttons on the handle, but not all. With the movement of the fingers of his right hand, you can manage contemporaneamete two parameters, the other one on the x axis and y be configured at will with its sound source. In addition to playing the notes, for example, can vary their distortion or enter any effect, as with a keyboard. Acting on the center of the screen you can even change the other two parameters. In short, the digital guitar
Misa in practice is a MIDI controller that uses the technique in other ways and positions of the guitar. The left hand controls which notes to play, and the right hand does not produce the sounds (the old touch, the arpeggio with your fingers for example), but becomes a new source of noise variables. The concept is somewhat the same as the normal effects pedals of traditional electric guitars, but in Misa is so much more complete and adjust the effects done with the fingers and not with their feet. Sure
Forget the "misrepresented" the Jimi Hendrix or BB King. The use of this or other digital guitar without strings, probably will make sense in electronic music, or those kinds of music really matter where the tone and color of sound, with Misa can be transformed into an infinite number of ways. On the other hand it is well cosapevole even its inventor Michael: "Misa does not compare the digital guitar with an acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. There are different tools were developed for different art forms, for a different music: this is electronic music. "
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