Charlie Lab Digitar

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"..wonderful little helper, called the Digitar. Connect it betweeen keyboard and Synthesizer and play chords like a guitarist. It's pretty easy and sounds very realistic. It's not the sounds that have to be super-realistic, it's the playing technique!"

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Charlie Lab Digitar midi guitar interface

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This is pretty amazing. There have only been a total of five Charlie Lab posts on the site including this one. Two of them went up today. What are the odds of that? See the Charlie Lab channel below for the others including a video.

Details in the auction from this Sound on Sound article.

"Italian company Charlie Lab's Digitar aims to provide a cheap and easy way to add guitar-like textures to MIDI-based music, without the need to buy an expensive and cumbersome dedicated MIDI guitar synth. For a start, the Digitar isn't actually a guitar: it's a compact and sturdy belt-mounted box, worn around the waist and equipped with six thick wires -- 'strings' -- which you play pretty much as you would the strings on a guitar. Power and MIDI connections are provided by an external box which is connected to the Digitar by a lead. Chords of up to four notes are played on a MIDI keyboard, the connected Digitar interprets these into a six-note guitar chord, you strum the strings and the result is sent to the MIDI Out to play the guitar sound of your choice -- all of this, of course, happens simultaneously. String movement, detected by fast optical sensors, produces no audible delays or glitches...'

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Charlie Lab SplitBoard K61 Keyboard with Guitar String Section SN 19/99

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"Up for sale is super rare Chalie Lab SplitBoard K61 synthesizer keyboard with mounted 'Digitar'."

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Digitar & Döpfer Ribbon

YouTube Published on Jul 27, 2012 by RinghausenMusic

"Charlie Lab Digitar & Döpfer Ribbon Controller ( DIY ) play Waldorf microQ"

Follow-up to this post. We now have video!

The Doepfer Digitar

via Uli Ringhausen on Facebook

The Digitar the Doepfer ribbon controller is hooked up to was actually by Charlie Lab. You'll find some info on it here. This is the only the second post to ever feature the Digitar.

Update: video posted here.

The DIGITAR

via this craigslist post
"Digitar by Charlie Lab is a MIDI controller that transforms the chords played on a keyboard or by a sequencer/MIDI player into the corresponding guitar inversions that can be performed at the musician's rhythm of strums or arpeggios. With Digitar and any good MIDI-tone generator it is possible to obtain some exact and absolutely realistic guitar parts, though remaining in the MIDI environment. Digitar's compactness (10 x 15 cm) and versatility turns it into a perfect and crucial partner for both recording studio and live performances."
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