M3i Technologies, a company based in Germany has developed a laser pitch detection system for guitars. It uses a laser diode pickup and bridge piece to monitor the changes in string length and calculate the pitch of the string.

The advantage of this system is that it will allow users to record in real-time. You can digitally capture a guitar performance, or to turn it into a MIDI synth.

And it’s not just for the guitar, the system can perform with any type of stringed instrument that has a fingerboard, fretted or fretless, and may be picked or bowed.

Before you get too exited, the LPD(Laser Pitch Detection) won’t be available until sometime in 2012.

For more information on this product visit M3i

via Mobile Magazine

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