Daniel Smith Final Project Music 220a Fall 2008

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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