GuitarPie: Electric Guitar Fretboard Pie Menus

(andreasfender.com)

49 points | by DonHopkins 3 days ago ago

9 comments

  • DonHopkins 3 days ago ago

    Combining the GuitarPie with the Voystick (vocal joystick) would rock!

    Keyboard and voice navigation, analog "voystick" vocal joystick formant/pitch tracking:

    Voystick:

    https://github.com/elisaoh/mypystick

    Vocal Joystick:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXmccs4GIqI

    Vocal Joystick Home Page:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20100626050314/http://ssli.ee.wa...

    University of Washington: Department of Linguistic: The Vocal Joystick

    https://linguistics.washington.edu/research/projects-and-gra...

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  • greenspam 2 days ago ago

    Cool! And your last name is Fender.

    • DonHopkins 2 days ago ago

      Also this funky citation:

      Markus Funk, Vanessa Tobisch, and Adam Emfield. 2020. Non-Verbal Auditory Input for Controlling Binary, Discrete, and Continuous Input in Automotive User Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Honolulu, HI, USA) (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376816

      • chrisweekly 2 days ago ago

        Talk about nominative determinism! Fender and Funk?

  • sublinear 2 days ago ago

    This is cool, but I'm having a hard time seeing this working in a real product.

    Guitarists have been using their picking hand or pedal controls since the beginning of the electric guitar without much fuss or concern.

    I also thought pie menus died off because everyone decided they were too limited, hard to understand, and overall annoying regardless of the input method.

    • retrochameleon 20 hours ago ago

      Well, pie menus tend to work pretty well in video games in various contexts. Commo-rose style communication callout menus are a prime example.

    • DonHopkins 2 days ago ago

      Ha ha, you must not be aware of graphics tools like Blender, Maya, Rhino, Krita, SolidWorks, etc, or games like The Sims, Secret of Mana, Neverwinter Nights, Crysis, Mass Effect, Battlefield, etc.

      "Hard to understand" is on you, buddy. I wasn't aware that "everyone" got together and agreed on everything -- that seems like a suspicious claim. Where did you read that? Surely you can cite some papers and article by "everyone" as evidence, and you're just not making it up in an attempt to troll.

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