The unique design of the Roli Seaboard Grand allows the keyboard player to get very close to the guitars expressiveness.
LENBURU written by Michael League of Snarky Puppy
This is just cool.
Modular Effects Box Coming Soon from Pittsburgh Modular
Looks like another company is taking a stab at the modular FX idea. Pittburgh Modular isn’t a known name among guitarists at the moment, as they primarily make modular, patch-bay synthesizers, also known as EuroRacks. Looks like they will be putting this same technology on the floor in stompbox form. No other info is currently available other then they will be officially introduced at Germany’s Musikmesse in April.
SnapDrive Modular Pedal System
At first, this seems like a great idea. But I’m wondering just how flexible it really will be. And will you buy a bunch of blocks and only end up using a few? Maybe the best approach would be a base that allowed you to build a multieffect. For example, combing a compressor, boost and overdrive.
Apparently, this is just a prototype, and the final version will be smaller, with the blocks connecting with magnets.
The Submarine: A Pickup for Just Two Strings
Here’s an interesting idea. The Submarine is a sort of, auxiliary pickup, that works on just one or two of your strings. The idea being that you could send the output of just those strings through different pedals or to a different amp to get a wider palette of sounds from your guitar.
The obvious application, as demoed below is to send the bass strings through some kind of octave effect. But you could do anything really, or even put them under your treble strings. A similar idea is the “a Little Thunder” pickup which adds the octaved bass note effect directly from within the pickup.