PHOTON GUITAR TO MIDI CONVERTER

When the Roland guitar synthesizer came out, there was big buzz about it, but it seemed to not work very well.
A musician friend (I think it was Nils Lofgren) said to me "why don't you make one that really works?"
I thought about it and after many months of work the Photon was completed.
It had special digital filters for each string signal, infra-red pickups, and a lot of code to handle things like fret buzzes, harmonics, etc.
Kevin Kent and I started company called K-Muse to manufacture it.
Later we decided to license it to Gibson. Gibson manufactured it under the name "Phi-Tech".
We never made any money, and all of John McClaughlin's recordings incorrectly credited Mark Dooley at Gibson as the inventor.
But when I heard the amazing music people made with it, it was all worth it. Hearing McLaughlin play it live was fabulous, and the album Carlos Alomar did with it was extraordinary.
Here are some of the people who used and endorsed it when it was first released for sale.