TK. Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 Graham wrote: I've been working on a MIOS-powered project for a few years now and am finally ready to share the results. It's still very beta, but I thought others might enjoy seeing the project regardless. Basically, the idea is to provide a kind of "active tablature" right on the fretboard of a bass guitar. MIOS runs an onboard sequencer module which controls a bunch of LEDs embedded in the fretboard (125 of them!). Currently, I have some (PC) software for converting MIDI files to fingering patterns. This data is then sent via MIDI to MIOS which controls the storage, loading, and playback on the LEDs. There is basic support for features like pause/playback, tempo, track scrubbing, and the ability to set A-B points. I'm still working to fix some bugs in the time stamping code, but thought the community might be interested anyway. Here's a link to relevant webpage: http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~grindlay/active_tab.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilmenator Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 Very inspirational project - great! I love it when MIDIbox is used for the not-so-obvious! ilmenator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithy Posted December 13, 2009 Report Share Posted December 13, 2009 (edited) Simply Amazing. Both technically, and how he constructed it using random bits of wood! I cant help thinking that this will be cloned very soon, and sold commercially as a musical education instrument. Edited December 13, 2009 by Smithy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screaming_Rabbit Posted December 13, 2009 Report Share Posted December 13, 2009 (edited) Good work and nice idea! I cant help thinking that this will be cloned very soon, and sold commercially as a musical education instrument. ... I can remember that this was commercially available about 15 years ago and I had the same idea 20 years ago. When I was at GIT in LA, Gibson made a contest among the students. They wantet us to design the guitar of our dreams. The winner would get his guitar built by Gibson Customshop. Certainly they just wanted to collect our ideas for free. - The winner was a student with the idea of a 12 string mandoline... how stupid! But it probably was the cheapest to build and Gibson would get all the other brilliant ideas for free anyway ;-). Part of my idea was also having the dot-LEDs to show scale patterns and as a show effect for stage performance (blinking patterns with a "tap" function to be in the same groove as the song). I also requested Hex-Picups, each coil with independent volume and tone controls in form of trim-pots and the pickups were mounted on two steel rails to adjust azimuth and position. I also suggested a "feedback to the second humbucker coil" for sustain enhancement... which a few years later was sold by Seymour Duncan. There were several other gimmicks planned, which I can't clearly remember anymore. Ooops... sorry Graham, hopefully didn't get too off topic. Greets, Roger Edited December 13, 2009 by Screaming_Rabbit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latigid on Posted December 14, 2009 Report Share Posted December 14, 2009 (edited) Anyone remember these guys? Graham's is better though ;) Edited December 14, 2009 by latigid on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strophlex Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 This is a really really cool project! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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