The team at Gibson Labs spent the past three years turning the Magic technology behind the digital guitar into reality.
You can send each string on a separate sound channel
The instrument has an Ethernet connection like those found in the back of computers, using a standard network cable connection.
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"What we've done is to make it very high quality and very fast," Mr Vallier told BBC News Online, "and we have optimised the Ethernet so that you can use it for music and real studio situations." Mr Vallier recognises that some guitarists will be wary of abandoning their traditional instruments. But he stresses that some musicians would be tempted by the new possibilities on offer.

Gibson puts a stylus in the wood, 2003