A few questions that some people here might have answers for...

[JadussD]

I had an idea to start a business. I don't really want to say what it is to be honest, but it involves modifying guitars. You can probably piece together what it is from my questions anyways if you have some technical knowledge about computers and instruments :)

- Does anyone know anything about pickups for sale that can output the vibrations they pick up _digitally_, hopefully with the potential to completely separate the sound of each string?

- How about electrostatic pickups, does anyone know anything about these? I've seen them for violins...

- Is there any "open", easily modifiable standard of hardware that can run a stripped down version of linux with enough processing power to do on-the-fly, complicated processing of an audio stream (or two or three)? Something that would just be small, with a console with an LCD screen maybe the size of a GBA-screen at most (doesn't need to be in color) and some buttons for input...it would be modifiable enough to feed digital audio into it from another source using something like SPDIF. Are there companies that make computing devices like this?

I'm totally new at all of this, so any answers anyone who happens to know about this kind of thing would be awesome.

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[GeminiMan]

I think there's something like laser pickups out there, but they're super spendy.

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[Richter X]

This sounds like a topic for "Ask Slashdot".


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[icenine0]

You could conceivably go with a http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2134869242.htmlSharp Zaurus</A> and an http://www.core-sound.com/pdaudio-cf.htmlPDAudio-CF</A>.

It'd be a bit spendy, tho.

> - Is there any "open", easily modifiable standard of
> hardware that can run a stripped down version of linux with
> enough processing power to do on-the-fly, complicated
> processing of an audio stream (or two or three)?

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