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Reflective Optical Pickup For Violin

Nicolas Leroy, Emmanuel Fléty, and Frédéric Bevilacqua

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

We present here the development of optical pickup for acoustic violin. Unlike other optical pickups, this one works in a reflective mode, which is potentially less intrusive. This pickup, aimed principally at pitch tracking, uses a modulation technique to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, and limit artifacts of the ambient light.

Citation

Nicolas Leroy, Emmanuel Fléty, and Frédéric Bevilacqua. 2006. Reflective Optical Pickup For Violin. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176859 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2006_Leroy,
author = {Leroy, Nicolas and Fléty, Emmanuel and Bevilacqua, Frédéric},
title = {Reflective Optical Pickup For Violin},
pages = {204--207},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
year = {2006},
address = {Paris, France},
issn = {2220-4806},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176859},
url = {https://nime.org/proceedings/2006/nime2006_204.pdf},
abstract = {We present here the development of optical pickup for acoustic violin. Unlike other optical pickups, this one works in a reflective mode, which is potentially less intrusive. This pickup, aimed principally at pitch tracking, uses a modulation technique to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, and limit artifacts of the ambient light.}
}