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Slide Guitar Synthesizer with Gestural Control

Jyri Pakarinen, Vesa Välimäki, and Tapio Puputti

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This article discusses a virtual slide guitar instrument, recently introduced in [7]. The instrument consists of a novelphysics-based synthesis model and a gestural user interface.The synthesis engine uses energy-compensated time-varyingdigital waveguides. The string algorithm also contains aparametric model for synthesizing the tube-string contactsounds. The real-time virtual slide guitar user interface employs optical gesture recognition, so that the user can playthis virtual instrument simply by making slide guitar playing gestures in front of a camera.

Citation

Jyri Pakarinen, Vesa Välimäki, and Tapio Puputti. 2008. Slide Guitar Synthesizer with Gestural Control. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1179607 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2008_Pakarinen,
abstract = {This article discusses a virtual slide guitar instrument, recently introduced in [7]. The instrument consists of a novelphysics-based synthesis model and a gestural user interface.The synthesis engine uses energy-compensated time-varyingdigital waveguides. The string algorithm also contains aparametric model for synthesizing the tube-string contactsounds. The real-time virtual slide guitar user interface employs optical gesture recognition, so that the user can playthis virtual instrument simply by making slide guitar playing gestures in front of a camera.},
address = {Genoa, Italy},
author = {Pakarinen, Jyri and V\''{a}lim\''{a}ki, Vesa and Puputti, Tapio},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1179607},
issn = {2220-4806},
keywords = {Sound synthesis, slide guitar, gesture control, physical mod- eling },
pages = {49--52},
title = {Slide Guitar Synthesizer with Gestural Control},
url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2008/nime2008_049.pdf},
year = {2008}
}