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Zoybar has received the 2009 Atir Awards – Israeli Industrial Design Awards by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Labor.

"Zoybar`s modular design offers a new development process that incorporates attributes from the digital domain - cut & paste, copy & paste and the most important 'undo' - the ability to move back and forth in the assembly without losing materials or information."
" At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, new means of production and design are creating new markets. These emerging markets and resources require new business models and design approaches. What began as a research project of alternative production platforms evolved into a successful open hardware commercial venture. ..."
"This is a guitar for musicians, not necessarily for guitarists. It's meant for people who are interested in creativity as such, not only for those who just do what they are told..."

I.D. — September/October 2009 Vol. 56, Number 6
Sound Ideas
Modular music-making platforms are changing the way we think of the musical instrument — and building communities in the process.
By Daron Murphy

"These days, open-source hardware is the rage among venture capitalists, technologists and hackers: The idea is that you provide a kit of modular parts, which anyone can then adapt to whatever need they like."

"the design is essentially like a lego for musical instruments, the parts can be assembled and reassembled in any configuration allowing the creation of completely new instruments."

"It’s essentially what others might do with pieces of random instruments, but the attachment method for the bits in a Zoybar setup is standard so that they’re swappable, individually upgradeable and so on, without any soldering or drilling to be done."

"The results look like something the evil supergeek in an 80s movie would play. “So, Todd, you think you and your puny Goody and the Goody Two-Shoes can defeat me, Brad, in the Battle of the Bands Saturday? Ha! You haven’t seen my secret weapon, the Kaossitar. My band, The Black Death, will be unbeatable – and the babilicious Mindy is totally mine! Now, where’d I put my Power Glove…”

"Stringed instruments are diverse in sound and design, but they all share the same basic shape. That similarity hadn't really bugged anyone too much for the last few hundred years, but where most see variety Zoybar sees redundancy..."

"These modular parts are able to be assembled together into various instruments, and amazingly enough, can be swapped during the performance to go along with a myriad of special effects simply by adding or changing their position across the profile grooves."

"The Zoybar kits aim to reduce a lot of those complexities -- the components are all open-source, extremely customizable, and modular. They boast seemingly endless options for the guitar (or whatever you choose to build), not to mention the possibilities of the special effects displays. It looks like it's going to be pretty simple to get creative with the kits"

"Here's something you've never seen before. Seriously. Zoybar has developed this guitar-looking device that allows players to manipulate sounds from several stringed instruments..."

"Guitar aficionados, get ready to drool. Even if you’re not into guitars or any other musical instrument, this product will definitely interest anyone with a liking for creativity."

"Have you every wanted to make your own guitar but have been put off by your lack of wood working skills? A Zoybar could be the solution..."

"L’imagination n’a pas de frontière et tant mieux ! Et dans le domaine des instruments de musique, ce postulat se confirme par la Zoybar. "

"Zoybar Is To Guitars What Controllerism Is To MIDI Interfaces"

"As modular synthesizers are to the world of synths, the Zoybar is to guitars"

"Qui si è affrontata la cosa dal punto di vista opposto, quello dell’utente finale; il livello di libertà di scelta è massimo, si può realizzare tutta una vasta gamma di alternative, si va dalle più semplici chitarre elettriche, passando per i bassi, fino alle stravaganti chitarre a doppio manico...."

"Zoybar looks like a transformer robot. It can be mounted with different necks, different pickups - and there's plenty of room for third party hardware effects. Instant sound control at your fingertips"

"Die Idee: Auf der Plattform können die Nutzer sich über ihre Konzepte für Saiten-Instrumente austauschen, indem sie sich zu Projektgruppen zusammenschließen oder Fotos und Videos für alle sichtbar online stellen. Da die Musiker sich ihre Instrumente selbst mit Hilfe des Basis-Baukastens zusammenbauen, können sie auch entscheiden, wie diese aussehen. Sie legen fest, wie lang der Korpus ist oder ob statt einem Griffbrett ..."

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