Scoring music direct from guitar

[Bill Reid]

I've posted this on the RECORD forum as well as here. If posting on two forums is verboten, please forgive me and delete whichever one seems more logical.

I was talking with a friend who said he has a "box" that plugs into his guitar (1/4") and carries the signal to a music scoring program (in his case, Sibelius, I think), actually scoring as he plays. I believe he called it a Firepod. When I search for "Firepod," I find a pretty complex (and expensive) unit from Presonus now called the "FP-10," a complete recording sustem (which has been discontinued).

I'm really looking for a simple scoring system that I can use informally with a guitar; once again, the end result needs to be a printable music score, not simply a sound or sequencer file. I don't really want to use the guitar as a primary controller, but maybe that's what it really is (the signal into the "box" is apparently carried by a simple guitar cable, not even TRS, then it goes out to the computer via firewire).

It makes sense that such an accessory would exist, but I can't seem to find it on the Web.

I looked at an AGF Firepod thread from early 2011, but the topic wasn't relevant to me.

Ideas? CHEAP ideas? EASY ideas? I'm too old for a long learning curve.

THANKS!