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09/01/2006

Face-Controlled Electric Guitar

David Merrill "mapped the output of a real-time face-tracker onto the parameters of an audio effects processor" in his Facial Control for Electric Guitar project. Short video after the jump.
A modified real-time head-tracker communicates via a TCP/IP socket connection to a custom server program. The server manages the mapping of sensed gesture onto control messages, which it sends to a guitar effects processor via MIDI messages
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Posted at 09/01/2006 01:12am by Guitarra controlada con la cara en Origami News | Beta
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Posted at 09/01/2006 01:50am by brent
i got a good reason, im taking the easy way out.
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Posted at 09/01/2006 08:25am by Johnnyg0
I'd like to see this control parameters on effects like the expression of a Wah Wah pedal, .. I guess you can do more with this than just change patches.
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Posted at 09/01/2006 1:50pm by nocode
i agree with Johnny, but still very cool. This is probably only the beginning of what this guy is looking to do with the facial recognition. kinda reminds me of a pitcher in baseball shaking off pitches that the catcher signals
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Posted at 09/01/2006 4:02pm by guitargeek
It's kind of a neat gimmick but that's it. I wish people would quit trying to modernize the guitar! The technology peaked in about 1967 and with few exceptions everything since then has been gimmicks. It's an archaic instrument and people need to accept that and work with it. Call me a luddite but digital technology has no business in the signal chain of a guitar rig. Guitars are analog by nature and that should be accentuated. It's meat, wood, steel, copper coils, magnets, and VACUUM TUBES! I don't even like transistors in there!
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