This paper presents Robotaba, a web-based guitar tablature transcription framework. The framework facilitates the creation of web applications in which polyphonic transcription and guitar tablature arrangement algorithms can be embedded. Such a web application is implemented, and consists of an existing polyphonic transcription algorithm and a new guitar tablature arrangement algorithm. The res...

The evolution of instruments mirrors changes in technology, culture, and society. In the early twentieth century; engineers, inventors, and tinkerers started to experiment with ways of using advances in mechanics and electronics to record, enhance, and produce sound. Concrete examples of this phenomenon can observed in devices such as: the Telharmonium, a device which transmitted sequences of t...

This project aims at studying how recent interactive and interactions technologies would help extend how we play the guitar, thus defining the “multimodal guitar”. Our contributions target three main axes: audio analysis, gestural control and audio synthesis. For this purpose, we designed and developed a freely-available toolbox for augmented guitar performances, compliant with the PureData and...

The objective of this paper is to understand the critical parameters that need to be addressed while designing a guitar tuner. The focus of the design lies in developing a suitable algorithm to accurately detect the fundamental frequency of a plucked guitar string from its frequency spectrum. A user-friendly graphical interface is developed using Matlab to allow any user to easily tune his guit...

Our project has two main parts; part one consists of reverse engineering the USB protocol of the X-Plorer guitar controller manufactured for use with the Microsoft c ©Xbox 360, and part two is implementing a USB driver to make the guitar available to applications running on top of the Linux kernel, with the specific goal of being able to use the X-Plorer guitar with the open-source game Frets o...

Audibility of inharmonicity in realistic acoustic guitar tones was studied through formal listening experiments. Test tones were synthesized using an FZ-ARMA model of acoustic guitar sounds, which allows accurate control of the inharmonic partials. Inharmonicity was detected fairly easily for the lowest strings if the plucking transient was left out of the sound, but much harder for the full so...