wanna plug your instrument straight into the computer?
This site is dedicated to join the users and manufacturers of instruments that use a firewire connection
FireWire is the nicer name Apple gave to the IEEE1394 connector standard, made for high speed real time applications like video cameras and multi track audio
Since the seventies, some use single string connections to give more options to guitar signal treatment, often called hexaphonic or polyphonic guitar, or even, slightly wrong: MIDI guitar. So far several connectors have been used and the Roland 13pin DIN. But none of them was quite ideal, making the whole technology expensive and little versatile. Now the digital age brought a new chance for the polyphonic guitar.
So far the only firewire guitar on the market is made by Rolf Spuler
the impulse to this construction came from Matthias Grob, builder of Polysubbass and other polyphonic effects since the early 80ies. The main implementation of the electronics was done by Philipp Scheidegger and the soft ware by Day Koch at BridgeCo, one of the very few companies that create FireWire interfaces.