Slide Guitar Synthesizer with Gestural Control

This article discusses a virtual slide guitar instrument, recently introduced in [7]. The instrument consists of a novel physics-based synthesis model and a gestural user interface. The synthesis engine uses energy-compensated time-varying digital waveguides. The string algorithm also contains a parametric model for synthesizing the tube-string contact sounds. The real-time virtual slide guitar user interface employs optical gesture recognition, so that the user can play this virtual instrument simply by making slide guitar playing gestures in front of a camera.