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Gibson's Digital Guitar Finally Released
tdiman writes "The world's first digital guitar, using Gibson's MaGIC digital transport standard, was introduced February 20th at the Intel Developers Forum." We've been following this one for awhile, I'm really curious to see what something like this can do.
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It just won't be the same. No way.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
What I really wanted was an ethernet port on my toaster...
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Oh well... Imagine a beowulf... No no... i'm not going there.
-- -=innocent ramblings from the mind of an insomniatic programmer=-
but since it's digital, that means it really only goes to 3.
-aiabx
Just this guy, you know?
The "digital guitar" can not actually be used for making music, as new legislation prevents the exact duplication of music ("digital copies").
Roadie - "I can't ping the guitar! Better reboot."
Guitarist - "Man, that's kill my uptime."
..."hack-the-gibson-joke-here"
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Here's hoping it fares better than their website!
Why do we punish the ones we love??
5 -- For some reason, you think rock music isn't dead yet
4 -- It's something to do in between your Frost Pists!!1
3 -- Utilize the all new one-click recording feature of the GNU Radio software
2 -- Jam along wirelessly in front of the TV during the Terry Tate: Office Linebacker commercial
1 -- Gives you the chance to play along with the hottest radio songs of the day, such as the punk-rock classic "All I Have" by Jennifer Lopez featuring LL Cool J, the arena rock classic "In Da Club" by 50 Cent, and country song "Mesmerize" by Ja Rule featuring Ashanti.
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That Green Day can finally play in tune?
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts."
Slashdotted Gibson.com pretty fast... anyone want to bet they only had one guitar serving the site?
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Elmo knows where you live!
I can see one, a fan with a palmPC shows up to a stones concert and starts broadcasting Kenny G on the guitar channel.
On the otherhand, a fan can show up to a kenny G concert and broadcast stones music on the Mic channel....
THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!!!! eventually.
It's a Gibson, and it's an axe. Do I hack it, or use it to hack?
The alliance is working on the trusted music platform which is expeced to be implemented on all digital guitars by 2006. Microsoft corporation (MSFT) will provide the software which will verify that the musician has renewed their subscription with the RIAA before allowing him or her to play the guitar. It will also constantly compare the notes being played on the guitar with a database provided by the RIAA. If a copyright violation is found, the guitar will immediately self-destruct and the musician's license will be revoked. A spokesman for Intel corporation (INTC) has assured slashdot.org that the guitar cannot be used without digitally signed software.
"This is a great step forward for digital music", RIAA CEO Hillary Rosen was quoted as saying. Now we will be able to protect misuse of intellectual property at the source instead of at the destination. The next step in the battle would be the development of the PTC - the platform for trusted cognition. Essentially, we will be able to monitor people's thought for intellectual property violations.
EFF director Cindy John was not immediately available for comment, but is widely rumoured to have commited suicide.
I'm in. I'll take care of abandoning the Sourceforge site.
If the guitar outputs IP over cat5, how long until it's wireless. And that will usher in a whole new era of hacking/cracking.
Imagine when you can smuggle your 802.11 handheld into a concert and hack guitar feed, playing your favorite music intead of the guitar track!?
Have you guys watched Spinal Tap lately? There's that scene where the guys are playing a gig at a military base, and Nigel Tufnel's (a.k.a. Christopher Guest) wireless RF guitar system starts picking up the military base's radio broadcasts...
They need to get it up to three if they want to compete with the Fender Strat though. That, or start publicising "the pickups myth."
...this one goes to 11Mbps
We've been following this one for awhile, I'm really curious to see what something like this can do.
I'm really curious also, though I do have an idea as to what it might be used for: making music. or something like that.
"And there be unix which have made themselves unix for the kingdom of heaven's sake." - Matt. 19:12
The world would be a safer place if guitars had a "reasonable use" provision built into the DRM that would: Only let the riff to "Smoke on the Water" be played up to 3 times without a licence; Never allow "Stairway to Heaven" be played within the confines of a music shop (add Bluetooth so the guitar can detect that there are many other guitars nearby).
Actually, Bluetooth would be cool, there'd be no excuse for instruments not to be in tune with each other.
Xix.
"Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"