VSG - The Virtual Slide Guitar

This is my Master's Thesis for Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Finland.

The title is Real-time Implementation of the Virtual Air Slide Guitar.

The synthesis was made with Pure Data and a Naturalpoint TrackIR 3:PRO infra red camera with a modified Optitrack SDK was used for tracking and gesture recognition.

Screenshot of Pure Data user interface http://users.tkk.fi/~tpuputti/pdscreenshot.jpg

Thanks to Jyri Pakarinen for shooting and editing the video and instructing the thesis.

-Tapio Puputti

Wanna know how it's done? Check out the article "Virtual Slide Guitar", available at http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2008/isbn9789512292431/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• virtual
• air
• slide
• guitar
• infra
• red
• IR
• camera
• tracking
• HMI
• interface
• real-time
• synthesis
• gesture
• control
• pure
• data
• VSG

[TheNeonRabbit]

Damn, it's a theremin that plays samples

[JohnnyJohnnyJohnny]

Ha ha ha. Amazing.

I keep meaning to sit down and learn pd better, but all the amazing videos out there are distracting me.

[Frombonics]

very interesting, I play a little slide myself....FF

[hakanozelguitarist]

wtf?!!?!

thats so fucked up and wrong its gone all the way out and round and come back into being cool again!

[SUPERMANxXx96]

how can i get the program for it

[martyr2005]

awsome!!! can you play "how could i" solo ?

jajajaja

nice job dude

[aidsflute]

That's the worst slide tone i've ever, EVER heard. But, it's a great bit of kit and you deserve respect for creating it

[jobbegoossens]

really good!!

[SophiaPhoenix]

It's Awesome! You're a Genious! Wonderful Job, Congrats!

[aharmanl]

Cool, congrats! I'd imagine that a horizontal 'tabletop' steel guitar (or hawaiian guitar) would be an easy modification of the same thing (placing the IR camera above a desk) and maybe easier to control. Did you try something like this?