{"id":155,"date":"2008-03-28T10:35:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T09:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robotcowboy.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2014-08-05T09:46:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T13:46:01","slug":"digitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robotcowboy.com\/cabledmadness\/musical-interfaces\/digitar\/","title":{"rendered":"digitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/robotcowboy.com\/cabledmadness\/tech\/instruments\/digitar.jpg\" alt=\"digitar\" height=\"225\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Casio DG-20 is a midi guitar from around 1987.  Think of it as a Casio keyboard+drum machine &#8230; but a guitar.  I can even switch it to monophonic mode!  I run this through a Turbo Rat distortion pedal which has been modified and cut down to fit in a small box that is velcroed to the guitar.  Midi in the form of note on\/off events from the strings is piped into the computer and used to generate audio and visuals.  Many may laugh at a &#8220;plastic guitar&#8221; but it has no latency between its built in synth and midi out as opposed to half-assed, strap-on electric guitar midi systems which average around 10-20 ms.<\/p>\n<p>I love this thing &#8230; I feel limited when playing my electric guitar now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Casio DG-20 is a midi guitar from around 1987. Think of it as a Casio keyboard+drum machine &#8230; but a guitar. I can even switch it to monophonic mode! I run this through a Turbo Rat distortion pedal which has been modified and cut down to fit in a small box that is velcroed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-interfaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robotcowboy.com\/cabledmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robotcowboy.com\/cabledmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robotcowboy.com\/cabledmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robotcowboy.com\/cabledmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robotcowboy.com\/cabledmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robotcowboy.com\/cabledmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/robotcowboy.com\/cabledmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robotcowboy.com\/cabledmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robotcowboy.com\/cabledmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robotcowboy.com\/cabledmadness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}