The "Smart Guitar"

[gjmalcyon]

In today's New Atlas email is the Lava Me 3 "smart guitar".

Lava unveils ambitious, lightweight Me 3 carbon fiber "smart guitar"

Chinese company Lava surprised and delighted us with its "Me 2" carbon fiber acoustic guitar, and now it's released "the first smart guitar ever," with a built-in touchscreen to control several built-in effects and apps, including a tuner and looper.

newatlas.com

Interestingly, it is not actually played in the embedded video.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Ugh. Shoot me now.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

PS - And why would I want a speaker that shakes my body?

 

[GGJaguar]

No. But it could be useful to buskers.

 

[GAD]

PS - And why would I want a speaker that shakes my body?

Ask any electric guitarist who likes to stand in front of the stack.

 

[AcornHouse]

A “smart guitar” would be one that self destructs if you try to play Nickelback.

 

[MacGuild]

Strings will be the next subtraction. A graceful vertical swipe of the touch-board will be a half-step bend.

 

[walrus]

Strings will be the next subtraction. A graceful vertical swipe of the touch-board will be a half-step bend.

Right! And a portable microphone with an Autotune app! Perfect for today's generation...

walrus

 

[Nuuska]

I'd have one in a minute - if they were 1/3 the price.

In last pic - the couple is sitting on top of Mercedes Geländewagen - ( in front of desert canvas? ) - and theother pictures, too, present circumstances of some wealth.

 

[walrus]

In today's New Atlas email is the Lava Me 3 "smart guitar".

Lava unveils ambitious, lightweight Me 3 carbon fiber "smart guitar"

Chinese company Lava surprised and delighted us with its "Me 2" carbon fiber acoustic guitar, and now it's released "the first smart guitar ever," with a built-in touchscreen to control several built-in effects and apps, including a tuner and looper.

newatlas.com

Interestingly, it is not actually played in the embedded video.

Ah, I just saw the video - weird no one actually plays it. Certainly a product for the younger generation - a lot of video of young and attractive "players" pushing icons!

Personally, I don't find this "unleashing my creativity" if I'm just pushing buttons instead of playing. But it's not marketed to me, anyway. To each his own.

This is sort of reminds me of the "are DJ's musicians" debate.

walrus

 

[Guildedagain]

You have a monthly subscription or the guitar stops playing ;]

 

[Christopher Cozad]

 

[walrus]

That's interesting to hear it being played, thanks for the link! He still doing a lot of swiping vs. playing!

One reason I play guitar is to relieve stress and escape the phone and the computer. Again, a generational thing...

walrus

 

[MacGuild]

That looper looks impressively easy to use (starts around 7:00 in the video Christopher Cozad posted above). Telling Lava to record the next 8-bars at X beats per minutes seems almost unfair compared to stomping Morse Code on a Ditto Looper, which is not unlike to trying to use a computer mouse with your foot. No tangled nest of cables. No chikka chikka on dampened strings to create a foundation percussion loop.
That guitar looks like a great practice tool. I'm a big fan of recording your own practice, same reason people record their own golf swing, you can get nice and minutiae crazy, a good honest look in the mirror. But I don't like the idea of everything you record being stored directly on a cloud, hopefully there is an option to line-out those files.
Funny, what the demonstrator didn't like probably did not even need to be there; that imperfect built-in app that aims to teach chord progressions. That sort of stuff is easily found elsewhere, often for free, so it didn't bring much to the table anyway.
What a world, now it is possible to hack into a guitar.

 

[Nuuska]

Ed Sheeran - watch out

 

[Guildedagain]

You'll be able to get firmware upgrades like;

Kurt Cobain Tone

Honky Tonk Attitude

12 String Jangle

Flamenco to Go

Julian Bream Inspiration

Maybelle Carter

Testimonials;

"I just downloaded Maybelle and it sounds just like the Grand Ol Opry ;]"

"Really got my Nirvana groove on"

"Julian takes me on trips I've never taken before"

"I feel like there's Byrds flying out of my guitar"

"Nails that smoky bar vibe"

"It's like having Segovia in your guitar"

For buskers you can pre-program a message that tells your sad story while you play, along with donation amount suggestions ;]

 

[MacGuild]

Testimonials

"My dad's old guitar can't even connect to the internet."

 

[walrus]

You have a monthly subscription or the guitar stops playing ;]

You know I hadn't thought of the money making possibilities of this guitar. I know you are joking but that's not that far-fetched. I can also see apps to download for certain effects or backing tracks as new songs come out - for a price, of course.

Interesting.

walrus

 

[Midnight Toker]

There have certainly been some neat high tech guitar inventions in the past few years. A friend got the Boss Waza Air guitar headphones 2 yrs ago. I was reluctant to warm up to the idea, until I tried them out....and was floored!! Headphones w/ built in gyro that places a virtual amp in front of you, or behind you...and as you turn your head, the direction of the sound moves with it. The virtual space can go from a studio booth to a stadium stage, a full compliment of boss effects you could load and fully control from an app on your phone. I was truly impressed!

But, as for this guitar. All I keep thinking about is the Belushi scene from Animal House during the toga party. "I gave my love a cherry, that had no stone....". I'm sure you know how that scene ends! Lol.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

. . . But, as for this guitar. All I keep thinking about is the Belushi scene from Animal House during the toga party. "I gave my love a cherry, that had no stone....". I'm sure you know how that scene ends! Lol.

I was thinking El Kabong, myself.