iTar interactive Guitar controller for the Mobile musician

In this implementation the iPhone/iPad surface serves as the “right-hand” strumming and picking interface, that is, the strumming and picking that a guitarist does when selecting notes with the fretting-hand while playing guitar.

The fingerboard mates intimately with an iOS app that serves as the strumming-hand expression controls as well as a setup tool for selecting sounds, organizing the various fingerboard functions, splits and layers, configuring connectivity with other devices and apps, and managing the special functions for both music performance and lighting on the fingerboard.

Because the Itar app is not limited to using actual guitar strings it also offers a variety of other touch screen performance surfaces that provide novel ways to interact with a guitar fingerboard.

The iTar’s LED fingerboard sports 15-bit color and has the capability to display images and text as well as execute a variety of animation commands that will transform the fingerboard lighting interactively as you play.

The iTar fingerboard communicates with the external world via Bluetooth and USB. The iTar iOS app supports multi-track sequencing, tablature display, VST plugin hosting, and Ableton-Live display/control directly on the fingerboard.

The fingerboard LED array lighting can be controlled using a dedicated MIDI-based command set to create a variety of interactive coloring and animation effects, providing a concurrent light show as well as teaching tools for beginning to advanced guitarists.

The iTar is a basic building block , a platform for a guitarist’s exploration of the world of mobile apps and desktop computer software. Its consistent, low-latency performance offers guitarists, producers, and electronic musicians a clean solution for getting music into the computer or mobile device and as the product evolves we will be offering hardware accessories as well as additional software features as they
are created.

The iTar is a product of iTar-UK Ltd, designed and built by Starr Labs-USA