Digital Guitars - So what do you think?

i think i goddamn want one. im a computer nerd. when i saw an ethernet cable coming out of the guitar it stimulated me greatly.

How is this different from a guitar synth?

It's just another take on the hexaphonic pick-up which could be used for a number of things including guitar synths. It looks like Gibson has just created a new format for the information that is actually digital coming out of the guitar (as opposed to the special cables/format used by the Roland stuff which is hexaphonic but analog).

Guitar synths (like the roland VG-8 and its brethren) use a hexaphonic pick-up to send 6 signals to what is basically a really powerful signal processor (which will use the input to model different guitars or totally unrelated sounds).

The other well-trodden use of hexaphonic pick-ups is to control MIDI devices. (This requires a box which does analog-to-MIDI conversion on each of the six strings.)

I don't know what all Gibson is planning to use their digital pick-up with, but it could surely have a lot of applications.

Things I want to do with this:

-Run it through the internet and jam with friends nationwide
-Proccess it through effects on my computer and make the most super-weird sounds ever
-Destroy the universe

What the unit will actually be used for:

-Getting the total exact guitar sound of the Linkin Park guitarist, dude!

-Destroy the universe
-- David Allen (Davidalle...), May 3rd, 2004.

Haha. YES.