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Incident, Makers Of The gTar, Launch Sequence App So Anyone Can Make Music
Incident, the same folks that brought you the gTar, are today opening up the platform to a new group of users. Launching Sequence, the company wants to make it as easy as possible for total amateurs to get started making music. The Sequence app is free, and offers the ability to mix together instruments to form a song, or record in real-world noises as samples. “It’s a cross between… Read More
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Incident Inks Deal With Sony/ATV, EMI To Bring 2 Million Songs To The gTar
Learning to play the gTar, by Disrupt darling Incident, is about as easy as learning to ride a bike. A series of light-up LEDs, paired with an app on your smartphone, show the gTar player exactly when and where to strum to create beautiful music. The only downside? There aren’t very many songs to choose from that are compatible with the gTar. Until today. Read More
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Disrupt Darlings GTar Talk About What Happens After You Succeed On Stage, Raise $350K, And Have To Ship Product
Last May, Incident Tech launched the gTar, a guitar with real strings that connected to a smartphone for some amazing sound processing. In the last few months, the founder, Idan Beck and his team have been busy preparing the 800 guitars he pre-sold on Kickstarter for shipment. Theirs is a story of creativity, cool, and the next generation in music technology. I spoke with Idan briefly about… Read More
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The Zivix Jamstik Is An Absolutely Amazing Portable MIDI Guitar For Beginners And Pros
The surprisingly small and light Jamstik is, in short, one of the coolest things I’ve seen at CES Today. It is a MIDI guitar that is actually a musical controller. By playing and plucking the strings you can play music using synthesized sounds and it recognizes chords, notes, and nuances including bends and hammers. Read More
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GTar Update: The Guitar Now Works As A MIDI Controller
The GTar, everyone’s favorite Disrupt near-winner, has just announced full MIDI compatibility for their guitar, allowing musicians to connect to popular software and “play” various sounds and triggers right on the guitar fretboard. Read More
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Talking (And Rocking) With gTar Creator Incident
Sure, UberConference took home the Disrupt Cup and its accompanying $50,000 (giant) check. But it could be argued that Incident, makers of the gTar, had already won. The company’s Kickstarter project skyrocketed from $10,000 in funding before stepping on the Disrupt stage, to a current $220,000. This is big, considering that Disrupt is a web/software conference and a hardware startup… Read More
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And The Winner Of The Third Annual TechCrunch Disrupt NYC Is UberConference
It’s been a whirlwind couple of days here in New York, as our expert judges watched earnest startups pitch their hearts out onstage at the third annual TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Thirty startups presented in the first two days, to be whittled down to six after much judge deliberation and founder bated breath: gTar, OpenGarden, UberConference, Ark, Babelverse and Sunglass. Read More
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Incident’s gTar Tops $120,000 On Kickstarter (That’s $110K In Less Than 24 Hours)
Kickstarter is a great place to launch a product. Remember the Pebble smart watch, which saw over $1 million in funding in its first 28 hours on the site, and surpassing $3 million well over a month before their stated goal? Disrupt, which just so happens to be underway as I type these very words, is also an excellent place to launch your product. We’ve seen countless companies rise… Read More
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Incident Launches The gTar at Disrupt, An iPhone-Powered Electronic Teaching Guitar
The gTar by Incident is disruption defined. It takes the guitar, an instrument with a steep learning curve, and adds a bit of digital wizardry in the form of an embedded iPhone to make learning dramatically easier. The company brags that their modern take on the guitar allows for three levels of difficulty, rather than the traditional single really difficult one. But thanks to the iPhone and… Read More
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