Aw, come on! Are you kidding me? Thanks Michael, for calling this to my attention…
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Scheeze… next thing Fender will have one in the next 2 years…then eventually Robot guitars will fill all the Wal-Marts all over the world! They’ll put those companies who make those little blow pitch pipes to tune your guitar obsolete…Damn you Gibson! Just make some cake!
These have been done before, but they’ve always been custom jobs. The benefit is mainly for professionals who play songs in different tunings but don’t want to have to carry two guitars or spend a long time retuning between songs.
By SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer 1 hour, 29 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES - Neil Diamond held onto the secret for decades, but he has finally revealed that President Kennedy’s daughter was the inspiration for his smash hit “Sweet Caroline.”
On another unrelated note, someone wrote “The cake is a lie” all over the bathroom in my school, and it made my day. Not that I condone that sort of thing.
I used Babelfish to translate this to Chinese, then back to English again. Not sure if it makes more sence or less though D:
“Holiday again. Forgives me when I dodged have submitted have the foot to the marketing ether for the Christmas day and its day million pieces crowd’s rumble. Holiday. Can we, not disappoint the child and other people which the hope gift surprisedly gives, just look to other value digestion, regardless of where you are? Is these details which the nature and sometimes hides? That has satisfactory and the lasting life? You miss the matter when you are go? Perhaps that when some person reminds you, you said that, oh is, is wonderful. And certainly most vivid detail: Family in there in body and soul meat and spirit. Holiday joyfully from our everybody in Sundance.”
Are robot guitars designed for robot guitarist or something? If so, it’s good to see Gibson reaching out to a new market! There aren’t enough insturments for robotic musicians.
Wait, you have to adjust the intonation BY HAND? And it instructs you by blinking its lights?? What kind of crappy robot guitar is that? Where’s the synthetic voice saying “Dude, your B string intonation is, like, totally hosed. lemme fix it while you have some Cheetos”
Some of those different tunings are (were?) possible with the Roland VG-8 from many moons ago, but it is (was) all software. I’m confused what tense to use because I don’t know if they still make it, but it’s sure been useful for me. But this from Gibson, being mechanical, takes a different approach. I wonder if it really has those servo sounds. As long as we’re discussing gear matters, I thought some neat things were being done with the Variax. This guy, Jeff Miller, built some guitars with the Variax guts. Warmouth started selling bodies build to accept the scavenged electronics. http://www.guitaristjeffmiller.com/guitars.htm
Quite a player, too, I thought.
The Gibson Robot Guitar - An innovation in guitar technology… A step forward in the race to “least effort possible”… A complete and utter pile of nonsense and chips.
It’s good to see a major company get on board the digital tuning systems. They straddle that line between totally ridiculous and totally awesome. The Gibson system looks tight but TransPerformance has been making one for a decade or so that works faster, easier, and has an LCD readout on the top of the guitar. Check out this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUBY5y9c5R0 Actually, the one that you should watch, Jonathan, is this one installed in an acoustic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H89FLfxKS-c Dorky, yes but weirdly tempting.
Christian, go to the, “Getting Music,” link at the top of the page.
I won’t admit I like the paintjob.
Actually, I love the fact it will store 6 alternate tunings accessible @ the tweak of a knob, that’s definitely the cool part.
I wonder if it will bend them in time with the song like a robotic Adrian Legg?
November 19th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Do you think it’ll want its own union card?
November 19th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Soon there will be a fully automated guitar, like the machine on Look Around You. Give it a key and a genre and watch it write songs.
Except acid jazz, try to make it play acid jazz and you’re gonna fry something.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
We tune… because we are programmed to care.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
The next rev will be the “Deborah Gibson Robot Guitar,” with tunings for Pop Princess, Broadway Belter, Sexy Chanteuse…and Ax Murderer.
November 20th, 2007 at 12:25 am
The only way to combat this is to get that cybernetic guitar playing arm installed at Toys “Я” U. The other one could be a saw… or an axe…
November 20th, 2007 at 12:36 am
Oh my God. What’s next?!? Robot Guitar Hero?!?
November 20th, 2007 at 1:03 am
S-s-sure, the guy with $6,000 suit is playing a guitar that tunes itself…. come on!
November 20th, 2007 at 2:22 am
I want the intonation feature, though.
November 20th, 2007 at 8:44 am
OMG! Zaphod, Little Mouse ruled!
November 20th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Scheeze… next thing Fender will have one in the next 2 years…then eventually Robot guitars will fill all the Wal-Marts all over the world! They’ll put those companies who make those little blow pitch pipes to tune your guitar obsolete…Damn you Gibson! Just make some cake!
November 20th, 2007 at 11:33 am
http://www.fender.com/vgstrat/home.html
They’re nearly there
November 20th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
These have been done before, but they’ve always been custom jobs. The benefit is mainly for professionals who play songs in different tunings but don’t want to have to carry two guitars or spend a long time retuning between songs.
November 20th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Diamond reveals `Caroline’ inspiration
By SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer 1 hour, 29 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES - Neil Diamond held onto the secret for decades, but he has finally revealed that President Kennedy’s daughter was the inspiration for his smash hit “Sweet Caroline.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071121/ap_en_mu/people_neil_diamond;_ylt=Aol8M.BTmaQePAQqhxwRwiKs0NUE
Saw this and had to watch the JoCo cover. Definitely rocks! When you come to Ohio I’m *there*!
November 20th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
On another unrelated note, someone wrote “The cake is a lie” all over the bathroom in my school, and it made my day. Not that I condone that sort of thing.
November 21st, 2007 at 6:57 am
I used Babelfish to translate this to Chinese, then back to English again. Not sure if it makes more sence or less though D:
“Holiday again. Forgives me when I dodged have submitted have the foot to the marketing ether for the Christmas day and its day million pieces crowd’s rumble. Holiday. Can we, not disappoint the child and other people which the hope gift surprisedly gives, just look to other value digestion, regardless of where you are? Is these details which the nature and sometimes hides? That has satisfactory and the lasting life? You miss the matter when you are go? Perhaps that when some person reminds you, you said that, oh is, is wonderful. And certainly most vivid detail: Family in there in body and soul meat and spirit. Holiday joyfully from our everybody in Sundance.”
November 21st, 2007 at 9:55 am
Are robot guitars designed for robot guitarist or something? If so, it’s good to see Gibson reaching out to a new market! There aren’t enough insturments for robotic musicians.
November 21st, 2007 at 10:46 am
Wait, you have to adjust the intonation BY HAND? And it instructs you by blinking its lights?? What kind of crappy robot guitar is that? Where’s the synthetic voice saying “Dude, your B string intonation is, like, totally hosed. lemme fix it while you have some Cheetos”
Mmm, Cheetos.
November 21st, 2007 at 11:07 am
Some of those different tunings are (were?) possible with the Roland VG-8 from many moons ago, but it is (was) all software. I’m confused what tense to use because I don’t know if they still make it, but it’s sure been useful for me. But this from Gibson, being mechanical, takes a different approach. I wonder if it really has those servo sounds. As long as we’re discussing gear matters, I thought some neat things were being done with the Variax. This guy, Jeff Miller, built some guitars with the Variax guts. Warmouth started selling bodies build to accept the scavenged electronics.
http://www.guitaristjeffmiller.com/guitars.htm
Quite a player, too, I thought.
November 24th, 2007 at 3:57 am
Very forward thinking of Gibson. Those guitars are going to be really popular once the humans are dead.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
The Gibson Robot Guitar - An innovation in guitar technology… A step forward in the race to “least effort possible”… A complete and utter pile of nonsense and chips.
Grrrrr.
November 30th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
It’s good to see a major company get on board the digital tuning systems. They straddle that line between totally ridiculous and totally awesome. The Gibson system looks tight but TransPerformance has been making one for a decade or so that works faster, easier, and has an LCD readout on the top of the guitar. Check out this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUBY5y9c5R0 Actually, the one that you should watch, Jonathan, is this one installed in an acoustic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H89FLfxKS-c Dorky, yes but weirdly tempting.
December 5th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
hi, I loved the song off of ‘Your Brains’ and I was wondering how I could get that song. I meen would I go and download it off the Internet or what?
December 7th, 2007 at 1:57 am
Christian, go to the, “Getting Music,” link at the top of the page.
I won’t admit I like the paintjob.
Actually, I love the fact it will store 6 alternate tunings accessible @ the tweak of a knob, that’s definitely the cool part.
I wonder if it will bend them in time with the song like a robotic Adrian Legg?
April 17th, 2008 at 8:01 am
A Gibson Robot Guitar? is this thing real ?