The user can connect plug-and-play, (i.e. without an additional pickup installation), to the box through a standard analog audio cable jack. He can play his own guitar with his specific expressive style, and he can use this system in studio, at home or on stage. Moreover, Morpheus offers the player the capability of selecting the available guitar sound presets, composing the virtual instruments or morphing the selected guitar element parameters.
Prototype architecture of Morpheus: Guitar microphone signal is processed by the pitch extractor section. Extracted pitch information drives the physical modelling section. Generated sounds from physical modelling are output as audio signal. Pitch extractor produces played notes information on MIDI out and, alternatively, MIDI in signal can drive the physical modelling operation.