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XI Guitar: Development of a Slide-Type Guitar Application that Reproduces the Playing Sensation of Analog Guitar

2023; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-031-27470-1_7

2367-3370

Liu PeiQiao, Takayuki Fujimoto,

Music and Audio Processing

In this paper, we propose and prototype a virtual slide-type guitar application for a smartphone. However, most of them place the guitar's fretboards and strings on one same smartphone screen and require users to tap buttons or images of strings. In short, they can produce guitar sounds, but users cannot simulate the sensation or experience of playing an analog guitar. A possible substitute for a real guitar is JammyG, which has a MIDI controller function, but this requires a device other than a computer or a smartphone and it is not necessarily a smartphone application that simulates an analog guitar. It is a very complicated system in fact and the smartphone just works as a controller. Besides, it is expensive and difficult to call it 'popular system'. There are many problems to be solved. In this research, inspired by the method of playing, a slide guitar, we have developed a prototype eXtended Intelligence Guitar (XI-Guitar) that can be played like an actual guitar on a single smartphone with physical sensation of horizontal movement of a finger, by utilizing the smartphone's acceleration sensor.