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127th AES Convention Coverage (New York, NY Oct. 9-12)
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Starr Updates Ztar Diamond MIDI Guitar
June 06, 2001
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The updated Ztar MkIII Diamond MIDI guitar is the newest in Starr Labs' line of high-speed performance controllers, marrying the features of guitar, keyboard and percussion into a single instrument. The new MkIII offers all of the newest improvements to the patented Ztar Fingerboard, Triggers, hardware, and software. The instrument has the company's smallest, lightest body featuring a unique diamond shape. The Display/Programmer as been moved to the sidewall of the instrument for easy viewing and access. The MkIII mounts six StringTriggers, velocity-sensing strings of any type or guage. A new optical pickup system, advanced preamp, and processing algorithm contribute to the fastest, most sensitive and reliable triggering system ever. The MKIII has six Expression Pads installed under your fingers just above the high E-string and six Pads under the the right thumb just below the low E-string. These Expression Pads may be tapped to play notes/chords, trigger sequences, or send Program changes, or they may be pressed with varying pressure to send pitchbend or any other MIDI controller message. The unit shown has a 4-pole joystick mounted in the PalmWhammy configuration that allows dropping your wrist while picking to add pitchbend, modulations, crossfades or over 100 other programmable MIDI effects. The computer-controlled fingerboard may be played like a traditional guitar or tapped like a keyboard with full dynamic velocity-range. It is also possible to play multiple notes per string allowing cluster voicings and fully independent two-handed performance. The fingerboard may be zoned, layered, and tuned in hundreds of different ways to suit your creative needs. A NeckSensor pressure-strip or Breath Controller is also available as a standard option to the MKIII. Individual custom orders allow a player to have any variety of pressure sensors, sliders, joysticks, ribbon controllers and rotary pots added to a new instrument design. Because the Ztar uses keyboard technology, there are no glitching, tracking, or timing issues that are found with other guitar controllers. For more information, visit their web site at http://www.starrlabs.com/.Recent Starr Labs headlines
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