Guitar Rising

There’s a lot of enthusiasm about Guitar Rising — a “real guitar” version of Guitar Hero. Just to be a stick in the mud I’m calling shenanigans: machine parsing guitar playing has been the holy grail of guitar nerds for quite some time. So unless the authors of this game have figured out something that all those folks working on guitar to MIDI translators for the past twenty years have failed to do, it will probably suck ass. And if they have figured that out, why not sell a multi-hundred dollar plugin to guitarists instead?

Posted to games, gear, guitar by Brad on 2/07/08 @ 9:53 pm |

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8 Responses to “Guitar Rising”

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bjrn
February 8th, 2008 at 5:17 am
I haven’t really considered this before, but is it really that impossible? I guess you have to deal with a huge amount of noise from which to extract notes, but I’m surprised no one has been able to do it so far…
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Brad
February 8th, 2008 at 10:11 am
With single notes it’s quite possible but as soon as you get into chords and slides and so on it gets real tricky.

One thing I was thinking was that they could do it like speech recognition software. Cut the whole thing up into phrases and match approximations. Though that still seems like it’d be frustratingly hit and miss.
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Garshal Marner
February 8th, 2008 at 11:31 am
If they actually build a guitar synth model that will fit in a persons rectal cavity it just might work.
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Scott Gentzen
February 8th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
I saw a video of this in NAMM2008 converage somewhere.

It’s not reading from the guitar’s output jack. It uses a MIDI pickup that you stick on and plug in on USB. The midi pickups have an individual sensor for each string and should be able to read the pitch from there.
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Eric
February 9th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Yeah, I thought that was pretty much the only thing Hex pickups were useful for.
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Justin
February 10th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
We were theorizing about this a few months ago, and yes, doing generic note detection is a huge pain, but if you’re trying to detect if a few notes/chords are being played, then it’s a lot simpler (just checking for the existence of a frequency is pretty cheap).. never got around to trying it, though…
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Barockeva
March 17th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
It works on single notes, not chords.
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Tom
March 29th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
What if your guitar goes slightly out of tune? Won’t it think you’re playing the wrong notes?

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