The Gibson Dark Fire is an electric guitar with lots of tech that will be released on December 15th. So, what’s the big deal?
At first blush, the Dark Fire just looks like a damn cool Les Paul, but there’s more under the hood. You can change tunings and the combination of pickups with a simple turn of a knob. It’s supposed to tune faster than Gibson’s first attempt at a robot guitar and should be able to produce lots of different tones.
You can change the software on the guitar so you can have custom tunings uploaded to the guitar (wow, that is weird to type). The Dark Fire also comes with software: Guitar Rig 3 and Ableton Live 7 are included. Guitar Rig lets you play using virtual amps and Ableton Live is recording studio software.
We’ll try to test the guitar hands on some time soon.
Read [Dark Fire Overview]
It should be noted that the version of Ableton Live isn't the full one. It's basically a slightly upgraded version of Lite. Still, I'm sure the whole product/package will totally rock.
The Dark Fire early adopters are considering taking legal action for being deceived.
http://forums.gibson.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=10998
http://forums.gibson.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=10842
Sounds very promising, I still have to check out the Line 6 guitars which should be a similar product. I am curious what they are able to do.
J
Thanks, Connor. You are completely correct. The version of Ableton Live is officially called "Ableton Live 7 Gibson Studio Edition" and is not the full version. Still is a cool package.