Misa Digital Guitar Makes Your Rock Band Peripherals Feel Inadequate (Linux guitar!)

“The electric guitar has been used worldwide for more than half
a century. The “guitar heroes” of the past and present
have done anything from plugging into literally thousands of effect
pedals to using a variety of objects to hit the strings to modify
the sounds of their guitars. The Misa guitar attempts to continue
this tradition of ingenuity into the next century by being a
completely digital guitar.

“The Misa guitar is actually an advanced type of MIDI controller
that is powered by a 500MHz AMD Geode CPU and runs Linux under the
hood (but don’t worry; you don’t need Linux to use the
guitar). The Linux firmware code is open source, which allows
programmers to modify it to their liking. While MIDI controllers
and guitar-emulating synthesizers are nothing new to the music
world, the Misa guitar is not your average key/knob/fader MIDI
controller.”

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