Video Guitar Prototype

"The LCDetar" With major advancements in modeling software and blazing fast digital audio conversion, I realized that computers and guitars were becoming much closer partners. So why forestall the inevitable? The "LCDetar" was born with the urge to place an entire laptop inside a guitar. This is the first guitar to use an embedded LCD monitor which is capable of generating it's own interactive visuals in high resolution. It is also loaded with onboard audio processing having a huge internal library of virtual effects, amps, speaker cabinets, and sampling software. A total of eighteen different midi functions are available through the 13 controls on top along with a remote expression pedal. At the touch of a button, this guitar can be reconfigured a thousand different ways. Nicknamed the "Bat-guitar," it was a little heavy and perhaps lacked style, but she succeeded in breaking ground as a prototype for Video Guitars and for the computer guitars of the future.
Onboard Components include: Toshiba Laptop Pentium IV, Echo Audio I/O, MXR preamp, Midi-tron controller platform, Eight switched knobs, four push switches, and one arcade button. It is typically setup to run Ableton live, Guitar Rig II and Milkdrop simultaneously. You can access windows through a wireless mouse and keyboard... and yes, it has wi-fi.

"The LCDetar"

With major advancements in modeling software and blazing fast digital audio conversion, I realized that computers and guitars were becoming much closer partners. So why forestall the inevitable? The "LCDetar" was born with the urge to place an entire laptop inside a guitar. This is the first guitar to use an embedded LCD monitor which is capable of generating it's own interactive visuals in high resolution. It is also loaded with onboard audio processing having a huge internal library of virtual effects, amps, speaker cabinets, and sampling software. A total of eighteen different midi functions are available through the 13 controls on top along with a remote expression pedal. At the touch of a button, this guitar can be reconfigured a thousand different ways. Nicknamed the "Bat-guitar," it was a little heavy and perhaps lacked style, but she succeeded in breaking ground as a prototype for Video Guitars and for the computer guitars of the future.

Onboard Components include:

Toshiba Laptop Pentium IV, Echo Audio I/O, MXR preamp, Midi-tron controller platform, Eight switched knobs, four push switches, and one arcade button. It is typically setup to run Ableton live, Guitar Rig II and Milkdrop simultaneously. You can access windows through a wireless mouse and keyboard... and yes, it has wi-fi.