I should have been more clear, but Gibson has a digital guitar line "HDx" or something that is a Line6 ripoff. You are right the powertone is a mechanical device unlike the Line6 gear.
I know Gibson has a more mechanical approach, but the technology that determines the individual string tuning is piezo-2-digital right (like line6)? Or did they embed an analog tuner for each string? That would be cool! I'll have to check one of these out as soon as they hit Guitar Center. You couldn't achieve tuning by measuring tension, because that could vary based on string guage and material so it's got to rely on some kind of wave processing.
This is not news... Gibson is just copying Line6 http://www.line6.com/. Go to their site and watch the demos of their modeling guitars and amps. I have a high-end Line6 guitar that models many classics (like Gibsons) AND it came with software that lets me change not only tunings, but pickup position, body density, and a zillion other tweaks. These customizations then become available via a switch on the guitar. I can go from a Les Paul to a Marten to a drop-d strat to a C7 12-string and they all sound beautiful! Visit their site if you play guitar. (no I don't work for them I just love their products!)
Why does anybody who uses personal computers bag on Microsoft? Without Microsoft there would be no Linux-because there would be no PC to run it on. Most of you are too young, or stoned, to remember when the freaking C-64 ruled the home computing market. Apple has never had a clue about pricing, or open architecture, so they've always had a barrier to mass appeal. Without Bill Gates' display of huge balls in dealing with IBM and forcing the operating system to be separated from the hardware the PC as we know it would have never have happened!
Every time I turn around there's another legal action against Microsoft, but who does that really hurt? Not Microsoft, a couple hundred million is nothing to them. But, think about what YOUR life would be like without them. You probably wouldn't have a good paying tech job, you probably wouldn't have the CHOICE to use Linux, or Solaris, or whatever, you certainly wouldn't have an xbox 360, the internet would still be limited to defense and academics, and... ok I'm going way out on a limb here, but you wouldn't have Windows either. That's right I said it. Windows has become a damn good operating system for the desktop. Over the last 30 years I've used them all and to date I've never had a better experience with a PC operating system than I've had with Vista Ultimate. OSX - Nope, BeOS - Nope, Solaris - Nope, Linux (any distro) - Nope. Vista beats them all. Oh and let me explain that bit about CHOICE for all you noobs - Microsoft changed the way the entire computer market worked when they forced the separation of the operating system from the machine. Back in olden times you pretty much had to run the OS that was sold, or supported, by the hardware manufacturer. Apples came with their own OS, C64s came with theirs on a chip, Suns came with SunOS and so on. There were exceptions, but these were *exceptions*. Because of Microsoft's vision we now have choice about what we run on our hardware.
Don't all you lemmings realize that Microsoft is the single most ripped-off company in the world? How many of you can say you've never used a stolen a copy of . How many Lawsuits could Microsoft file if they wanted to subpoena the world's hard drives? Yes they have zillions of dollars, yes they make mistakes, and yes they've released hoseware, but if you have any grey matter please stop bagging on them just because everyone else does. It simply serves no purpose and is not productive in any way.
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I should have been more clear, but Gibson has a digital guitar line "HDx" or something that is a Line6 ripoff. You are right the powertone is a mechanical device unlike the Line6 gear.
I know Gibson has a more mechanical approach, but the technology that determines the individual string tuning is piezo-2-digital right (like line6)? Or did they embed an analog tuner for each string? That would be cool! I'll have to check one of these out as soon as they hit Guitar Center. You couldn't achieve tuning by measuring tension, because that could vary based on string guage and material so it's got to rely on some kind of wave processing.
This is not news... Gibson is just copying Line6 http://www.line6.com/. Go to their site and watch the demos of their modeling guitars and amps. I have a high-end Line6 guitar that models many classics (like Gibsons) AND it came with software that lets me change not only tunings, but pickup position, body density, and a zillion other tweaks. These customizations then become available via a switch on the guitar. I can go from a Les Paul to a Marten to a drop-d strat to a C7 12-string and they all sound beautiful! Visit their site if you play guitar. (no I don't work for them I just love their products!)
Why does anybody who uses personal computers bag on Microsoft? Without Microsoft there would be no Linux-because there would be no PC to run it on. Most of you are too young, or stoned, to remember when the freaking C-64 ruled the home computing market. Apple has never had a clue about pricing, or open architecture, so they've always had a barrier to mass appeal. Without Bill Gates' display of huge balls in dealing with IBM and forcing the operating system to be separated from the hardware the PC as we know it would have never have happened! Every time I turn around there's another legal action against Microsoft, but who does that really hurt? Not Microsoft, a couple hundred million is nothing to them. But, think about what YOUR life would be like without them. You probably wouldn't have a good paying tech job, you probably wouldn't have the CHOICE to use Linux, or Solaris, or whatever, you certainly wouldn't have an xbox 360, the internet would still be limited to defense and academics, and... ok I'm going way out on a limb here, but you wouldn't have Windows either. That's right I said it. Windows has become a damn good operating system for the desktop. Over the last 30 years I've used them all and to date I've never had a better experience with a PC operating system than I've had with Vista Ultimate. OSX - Nope, BeOS - Nope, Solaris - Nope, Linux (any distro) - Nope. Vista beats them all. Oh and let me explain that bit about CHOICE for all you noobs - Microsoft changed the way the entire computer market worked when they forced the separation of the operating system from the machine. Back in olden times you pretty much had to run the OS that was sold, or supported, by the hardware manufacturer. Apples came with their own OS, C64s came with theirs on a chip, Suns came with SunOS and so on. There were exceptions, but these were *exceptions*. Because of Microsoft's vision we now have choice about what we run on our hardware. Don't all you lemmings realize that Microsoft is the single most ripped-off company in the world? How many of you can say you've never used a stolen a copy of . How many Lawsuits could Microsoft file if they wanted to subpoena the world's hard drives? Yes they have zillions of dollars, yes they make mistakes, and yes they've released hoseware, but if you have any grey matter please stop bagging on them just because everyone else does. It simply serves no purpose and is not productive in any way.