The Misa Digital Guitar

The Misa Digital Guitar is an up-to-date, futuristic guitar that resembles its conventional stringed electric relative but operates in a far different way. The Misa Digital Guitar is a digital sound synthesizer, or to be more precise a sophisticated type of MIDI controller created by Sydney-based engineer Michael.

Shaped like a regular guitar, the Misa Digital guitar has no strings at all. They have been successfully replaced by 8.4-inch 800-by-600-pixel resolution LCD touchscreen. The touch-sensitive screen is placed in the middle of the body, where the strings of a regular electric guitar would be. The harder you strike the touchpad, the louder the notes will sound, just like with a real guitar. The bright circle at the center of the screen controls different aspects of the sound so tapping, dragging, sliding and otherwise touching the various parts of the screen results in different sound combinations.

Misa Digital Guitar

The neck consists of 144 keycaps that generate MIDI notes, which are then modified by pressure and position on the touchpad. There are also 6 sensors across 24 frets on the neck, replicating a traditional 6-string guitar setup. This high-tech guitar has been designed in such a way that the right hand doesn’t pluck strings, it controls sound.

This advanced, hi-tech device runs Linux kernel 2.6.31 and has MIDI-out and Ethernet connectivity as well as an onboard SSH server.
The Misa Digital Guitar easily connects to any operating system on any PC with a MIDI compatible sound module or sound card and will also connect to most synthesizers and samplers.

On the whole, the Misa Digital Guitar is a state of the art device that brings music to a completely new level and challenges musicians’ creativity.

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