Paulverization - a realizable dream?

[Mark Hammer]

Someone on another forum I'm on was waxing poetic about how the late great Mr. Polfus used his "Les Paulverizer".

It occurred to me that it ought to be feasible to implement something that functions identically to a Les Paulverizer, using a suitable looper that can play selected loops, but USING AN EASILY ACCESSIBLE TOUCHPAD MOUNTED TO THE GUITAR.  Sure, you can do that sort of stuff with a floor-pedal and stompswitches, but it takes a bigger form-factor to provide the sort of space needed to allow your feet to hit targets precisely.  A touchpad could be easily made compact and mountable behind the tailpiece/bridge, in a manner similar to what Roland did with the various GK synth add-ons.  Yes, it occupies your fingers, when your feet are available, but I imagine one could easily hit the needed touchpads/microswitches accurately, with swifter movements less disruptive to your playing than required for using a floor-switch console.

The caveat is that it would require some sort of slender (hopefully) multi-conductor cable to connect to the touchpad, in addition to the normal guitar cable.  Meh, many guitarists have multiple instruments, and regularly cope with bigger and more cumbersome impediments to their movement.

Industry folks, are you reading this?  Start your engines.

[diffeq]

With modern electronics and all it's strange that no one ever did such a thing. It could be tiny and wireless - power consumption on those 433MHz transmitters is small, coin cell will last for long enough. Or get crazy and power it with guitar body vibrations (piezo) 

[greaser_au]

Crimson guitars on YT hotrodded a basic tele kit and added some sort of XY controller touchpad as a video series a few years ago.
"Taking a cheap kit guitar and making it great"

david