Instead of classic analog gauges, the Jaguar XJL Supercharged employs an electronic instrument panel that would seem more at home in an Xbox 360 videogame.

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You generally play a software synth using an external music keyboard plugged into the Mac via some variety of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) hardware device for connecting electronic musical instruments to each other and to computers.

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For Yo-Yo Ma's hypercello, Machover placed sensors on the instrument, the performer's wrist and his bow and fed the electronic impulses generated by those sensors into a computer.

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It may look like a sleek analogue instrument panel, but a prototype unveiled by Ford's Visteon division is really an electronic simulation.

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When you hear Santaolalla play a traditional instrument like the ronroco with a modern impulse, the genetic blueprint behind Bajofondo's electronic tango doesn't seem so foreign.

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