Gentoo rocks

[barmalini]

We all know that Gentoo rocks.
And here is the link http://www.misadigital.com/to see how it exactly does it.
Do you know any other cool/useful/interesting projects outside of the computer world that use Gentoo?

[kernelOfTruth]

simply amazing !

I always had liked "electronic" guitars - but this one tops it off

[96140]

That is freaking RAD.

This is the direction that overpriced Roland synth guitar should have gone.

Actually, the Misa seems rather Chapman Stick-like in terms of playing, since you're not strumming, but tapping. 'Course, the Misa can do things that aren't possible on the Stick.

All hail, Gentoo!

[mikegpitt]

As a guitarist of many years, I can say that I never expected to see a Linux (yet alone Gentoo) powered guitar

I wish the sound quality in the video was a bit better... it's a bit muddy.

[Koala Kid]

LOL... it runs Gentoo
http://www.misadigital.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2eiP12hQQY

[96140]

I interviewed the instrument's creator and posted it to the front page of gentoo.org.

Actually, as far as I know, I was the first to get the story and interview, but I went out of town for a few days immediately after, so some PC magazine or another got something up before me. Dangit.

Ah, well. Hope you enjoy the interview.

[pjp]

Guitarthesizer at its best.

Cool, but I think it'd have to sound better than that than to get a hit (or maybe it just needs a more "adapted" player)?

[slycordinator]

I concur. I think the thing sounds like utter shit. Hopefully for the inventor that's just him choosing a bad tone and that it can do many, better ones.

[szczerb]

I concur. I think the thing sounds like utter shit. Hopefully for the inventor that's just him choosing a bad tone and that it can do many, better ones.

It is opensource, and the design of controls seems generic enough to, with proper software, get an awful lot of tone varations out of it - without changing anything software-wise.

[nixnut]

merged some posts above

[kernelOfTruth]

I concur. I think the thing sounds like utter shit. Hopefully for the inventor that's just him choosing a bad tone and that it can do many, better ones.

isn't it sort of a midi player apparatus ?

in that case a better other end to where the guitar is plugged into would let it sound much better

[xaviermiller]

Yep, this is only a MIDI controller, like the Guitar of Guitar Hero/Rock Band : it sends notes, the sound comes from a MIDI generator (software / synthesizer / rack / ...).

[amightywind]

I have recently built Gentoo to run on an Ampro Geode PC-104 board for a CAN automation project at my company. There are a few issues. The Gentoo base install is way too large! The Gentoo portage installation requires about 4 GB of disk storage. This is really silly if you are only building a minimal base system without graphics. I ended up building on 8GB media and giving /usr/portage its own partition, and unmerged unneeded packages. I got things down to about 0.5GB. I did leave the GNU toolchain on, and that is kind of big. Then I used partimage to copy a minimal /usr to more modest flash media. The other issue is that Gentoo scripts poorly without a real time clock. This is understandable since most PC's have one. A PC mobo usually has a battery backed clock to keep time. Embedded systems often do not. Gentoo init pukes messages complaining about this, but the system manages to boot up. All in all I think Gentoo is a better option than Linux from scratch. Portage is very nice.

[gruber]

That is freaking RAD.

This is the direction that overpriced Roland synth guitar should have gone.

Actually, the Misa seems rather Chapman Stick-like in terms of playing, since you're not strumming, but tapping. 'Course, the Misa can do things that aren't possible on the Stick.

All hail, Gentoo!

+1

[curtis119]

All hail, Gentoo!

Here Here!




ps. Thanks for the interview!