har Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Here is a video from Tronical. http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/video-gibson-dark-fire-guitar-hands-on/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giraku Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Here is a video from Tronical. http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/video-gibson-dark-fire-guitar-hands-on/ Thanks for the headsup! It's great demo!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexyboy Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 I was holding my breath every time his watch and that humongous ring he is wearing went anywhere near the gorgeous finish!!! :) Great vid, thanks. Starting to get some idea of the immense tonal potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simont Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 2.47 mins... Q.so can GuitarRig control the guitar?A.yes I do hope GuitarRig is NOT our Configuration tool :) :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elantric Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 I understand the Configuration Tool is still being worked on and may miss the initial DVD Release. I asked Craig Anderton about the possibility of "real time" control of Dark Fire tunings and Chameleon tones BY THE COMPUTER /RIP connection - and the response was: "This is not in the cards" at present time. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLexxiTronic Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Real Time is a lot to ask. I worked on real-time software most of my career. In my opinion, even if you had the fastest laptop made today, all "useless" software stripped off of it, and it was solely dedicated only to the guitar (software and hardware interactions), a user would be unhappy because there would still be a frustrating delay between the time you strum the strings and then heard the output. Naturally, real-time could be done. But, it would have to be dedicated hardware these days. That's because a majority of software people (not to mention any names [Microsoftee's]) don't want to spend the efforts it takes to learn various development platforms. So these guy's continue building, what has now become, huge, bulky software, rife with bug patches and useless code, all, which takes away from truly functioning real-time products. Nope, ... Real-time code must be small and closely integrated to the hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elantric Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 I had hoped for a few MIDI CC# controls which could manipulate the Alt Tunings, and Chameleon modes. I have a lot of gear that have "hooks" to provide remote control via MIDI commands provided a memory resident app is running - like the "Configuration Tool" relative slow speed 500ms response time should be do able. Need to investigate the hardware we have inside Dark Fire. There are two 8051 class CPUs. http://www.mobilehandsetdesignline.com/news/207402494 I suspect the PEQ is a I2C controlled audio IC from NXP. Something like this: http://tinyurl.com/94yhgp http://www.nxp.com/acrobat/datasheets/TEA6360_CNV_2.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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