These are shots of the prototypes of Max Battaglia’s prototype Hyper Touch Guitar:
Introducing the Hyper Touch Guitar. From the mind of Max Battaglia at Givingshape Design Studio, this unorthodox design replaces strings with a multi-touch screen, allowing the user to adjust the number of “strings” and frets, as well as tuning and sound effects. A wireless command center that permits endless customization and infinite possibilities of expression.
Unfortunately, the Hyper Touch Guitar is just a design concept at this point. Looks pretty cool, though!
PremierGuitar has an interesting review of the new Roland GR-55 Guitar Synthesizer.
The verdict?
The GR-55 is a deceptively simple looking pedal that has a great deal of depth to it.
Overall, the sound quality of the synth voices, COSM guitars, and various effects is excellent. I appreciated the clarity of all of the sounds. And although I beefed up a number of patches using the onboard EQ to have more bass and punch, those adjustments were fast and easy. Keeping a guitar synth affordable typically requires a lot of design compromises. But the Roland is still a very powerful unit. And without question, it is the best tracking guitar synthesizer that I have ever played.
The ability to blend COSM guitars with synths is inspirational, and this pedal could open the door to new creative options for guitarists of any style. Indeed guitar players interested in increasing their tonal palette in a big way may find that the GR-55 alone can do far more for them than a rack of regular stomp boxes or multi-effects.
The GR-55 combines two banks of 910 synth voices with Roland’s COSM models and the ability to mix in dry signal. At about $700 street price, the new Roland GR-55 guitar synth looks like the best guitar synth deal in town.
Robert Randolph, pedal steel virtuoso of Robert Randolph & the Family Band, gives the Moog Lap Steel a try.
The Moog Lap Steel combines award-winning Moog Guitar technology with the unique expressive capabilities of the Lap Steel guitar. All the innovations of The Moog Guitar; Full Sustain, Controlled Sustain and Mute modes, Harmonic Blends and the onboard Moog Ladder Filter are seamlessly integrated to enhance new and traditional playing techniques.
This is a quick demo of the bizarre Nintendo NES Guitar.
The Nintendo Guitar is made by GetLoFi.com. The signal is routed through the LoFi Fuzz into a portable amp. The Power button on the NES body is connected to a tone capacitor ( cuts the high end ), the low-end signal is processed more distorted/fuzz like.
The latest episode of Bill Ruppert’s Electro-Harmonix Effectology series looks at how to turn you guitar into a string synth and tin whistle using effects pedals.
Roland has released the GR-55 Guitar Synthesizer, the company’s latest guitar synth.
Combining PCM synthesis with digital instrument modeling from the VG-99 V-Guitar System, the GR-55 represents Roland’s latest advances in guitar synthesis.
Eventide Space – the company’s new reverb effects pedal – is now shipping. Space can create a variety of spatial effects, including basic reverbs, delays and unique combination effects.
Space features 12 reverb combination effects:
Room
Plate
Spring
Hall
Reverse
Shimmer
ModEchoVerb
DualVerb
Blackhole
MangledVerb
TremoloVerb
DynaVerb
It’s demonstrated here by sound designer Richard Devine.
PocketGK is a $4.99 bass guitar amp application for the iPhone and iPad, designed for practicing with your iTunes music.
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