Real guitar?

ikea · Postby **ikea** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:40 am

Hey,

From a techincal perspective, shouldn't it be possible to let the user have a real guitar and let him play for real and only use audio input to figure out what he is doing?

Would it require quite a good mic? Electric guitar?

Is a tone always inside an given range?

Can somebody who actually knows how to play guitar shed some light on how it works? =)

How would the gameplay be with a real guitar? (Obviously ahellofalot harder)

Hugs!

/erik

warhol · Postby **warhol** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:23 am

Definitely a good mic and a precise hand :p

Don't forget the correct electric guitar

ikea · Postby **ikea** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:14 am

One would of course let it be quite fuzzy in it's deciding of tones. Thinking artificial neural networks.

If I hit two strings at the same time it makes a completly different sound, no?

How many combinations in total of sounds are we talking about?

warhol · Postby **warhol** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:24 am

2^5 +2 I think

ikea · Postby **ikea** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:42 am

That's nothing.

Should be a no-brainer to do this then. I'm guessing somebody already have some software to tune their guitars. Hopefully there are open source versions of that too, so I don't have to write to much code.

warhol · Postby **warhol** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:57 am

You forgot something; if you strum two strings, it won't produce a different sound, it will produce two sounds, which means the program will detect two sounds instead of one whole

ikea · Postby **ikea** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:58 am

Strum? =)

warhol · Postby **warhol** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:00 am

ikea · Postby **ikea** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:31 pm

So it's actually two tones very-very close to each other in time?
Or are they indeed mixed up a lil' bit and can be seen as one sound (even if it's a bit longer).

ducktape · Postby **ducktape** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:09 pm

its 2 different strings making there own sounds just together. the game would get confused. and you would have to read sideways. it would be possible i think, but I also think it would take the fun out of it. it would make it to hard. and not everyone can play guitar.
-ducktape

Zakreon · Postby **Zakreon** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:56 pm

Only maybe 2 people would use it if you actually made it.

jake2k3 · Postby **jake2k3** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:18 pm

Why not just play real guitar, without having it hooked up to FoF?

I don't get your logic in why this would be fun/practical/worth my time.
~Jake2k3

LedfortheHead · Postby **LedfortheHead** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:29 pm

Why not just play real guitar, without having it hooked up to FoF?
I don't get your logic in why this would be fun/practical/worth my time.
~Jake2k3

agreed
i don't think it would even work. say you strum the 3rd and 5th fret on a gutiar on the same string the 3rd fret and everything behind the 5th fret would not show up makeing every choad on fof impossible to play.

ikea · Postby **ikea** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:52 am

The idea basiclly is to learn how to play guitar. One would need to start out with really simple tunes.

In my oppinion it's boring as **** to learn how to play guitar, but I've spent weeks and weeks on guitar hero. Might as well invest that energy in learning how to play a real guitar. That's all. A modern guitar trainer. From what I see there are plenty of those out there, so throwing on a FoF frontend shoulnd't be all that hard.

/Erik

yogsothoth · Postby **yogsothoth** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:26 am

Didn't follow thread, I have some ideas though.

1. Buy a 1/4 Inch Female to 1/8 Inch Male Converter and hook up the guitar to the computer.

2. Use a midi guitar and have tablature flying at you instead of 5 notes :laugh:

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