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'''Strings''' Treating user clicks of the right-shift, enter, backslash, backspace, and F12 keys as string plucks of the E, A, D, G, and B strings respectively. | '''Strings''' Treating user clicks of the right-shift, enter, backslash, backspace, and F12 keys as string plucks of the E, A, D, G, and B strings respectively. | ||
| − | '''Frets''' The rows of keys, beginning with "Z, A, Q, 1, F1" are supposed to simulate | + | '''Frets''' The rows of keys, beginning with "Z, A, Q, 1, F1" are supposed to simulate the frets. So pressing any key in that row (Z, A, Q, 1, F1) is supposed to simulate pressing down either the E, A, D, G, B string respectively, at the first fret. |
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| + | Music 220a has essentially opened my eyes to the enormous economy of means that exists for creating music and working with sound through computers and technology on a whole. | ||
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| + | '''For me''', especially sparked by one of the later lectures, Music 220a raised the following question: '''does ''all'' modern technology dream of making music?''' | ||
Revision as of 00:00, 10 December 2008
Main Concept
The central idea for my final project, which I viewed as a sort of partial synthesis of the knowledge I gained over the course of Fall quarter 2008, was to turn a computer keyboard into a somewhat realistic guitar substitute.
The Method
I aimed to create this "guitar simulator" as follows:
Strings Treating user clicks of the right-shift, enter, backslash, backspace, and F12 keys as string plucks of the E, A, D, G, and B strings respectively.
Frets The rows of keys, beginning with "Z, A, Q, 1, F1" are supposed to simulate the frets. So pressing any key in that row (Z, A, Q, 1, F1) is supposed to simulate pressing down either the E, A, D, G, B string respectively, at the first fret.
The Process
Music 220a has essentially opened my eyes to the enormous economy of means that exists for creating music and working with sound through computers and technology on a whole.
For me, especially sparked by one of the later lectures, Music 220a raised the following question: does all modern technology dream of making music?
