Ableton Push and Live are various demented twists on MIDI controllers so how about you imagine a flexible Ableton controller and then put that on the body of an acoustic guitar.
Well ...
Well ...
They call the device ACPAD and it will be coming up on Kickstarter as they try to market the beast.
On first thought, this thing looks incredibly difficult to play but this musician is knocking out some virtuouso moves to impress you with the device's capability. Unless you're playing shows for thousands, your songs may not be that elaborate and there may be more application to this device than it seems from the demo.
My second thought is what would Voodoo Shilton do with one of these. It's not something I want to do as electric guitarists don't typically 'work the body' as much as acoustic guitarists. It would be a much more natural move for acoustic musicians to be touching this or that location on the body to get a particular sound or effect. This device takes that kind of play to another star cluster.
It seems it should work just the same on an electric guitar but there would be too many obstructions on the body of the electric to permit fitting it properly. The top part would likely be ok but the bottom would bump into volume / tone controls, etc.
Be exceptionally careful with how you proceed as the logical move, seemingly, is to embed these devices and associated circuitry in the guitar. However, these things come with a whole lot of switches and there's one thing about switches, eventually they will break. There's another thing about the device in that it needs power so now you need a battery. The beautiful body of your guitar which was designed purely for sustaining a note as perfectly as possible winds up getting routed, gouged and mangled for this gimcrackery.
The acoustic approach looks highly smooth as the device just sits on the body without out mutilation of the guitar. Quite an extraordinary thing as, done well enough, the guitar becomes a different instrument.
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