Hi Cedric,

Wild project. I would expect the cello synthesis to be less work than the hand
tracking but that is only my opinion. Have you thought of using Kinnect, you
could eventually sell the app as 'Air Cello Hero'.

There are plenty of synths on Linux that could give you an approximation of
a cello and if your motion tracking code can send out MIDI events then it
would be easy to integrate with any of them - pitch and mod wheel would
give you interesting results. Don't have references for any experimental code
but you might find some that is more realistic than a synth with regards to
some of the cello tonality.

Regards, nick.

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> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:07:33 +0100
> From: sed@free.fr
> To: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org
> Subject: [LAU] cello-like synthesizer?
>
> Hi LAUs,
>
> sorry, maybe it's well known, but is there
> a synthesizer (or however it might be called) that
> more or less sounds like a cello? (I should dig by
> myself, but I am very bad at that when it's not
> about finding programming related stuff.)
>
> I can edit/modify/compile/debug things, so even
> ultra experimental/research/half working stuff is
> very welcome.
>
> I am planning to write a little program to detect
> movements of my two hands with a little camera
> attached to the laptop I have here and I thought
> I could, I don't know, send midi events or whatever
> to a synthesizer (or whatever) and have some audio
> output that would more or less sound like a cello
> (I love cello).
>
> Or any string instrument that you play with a bow
> if cello is too specific.
>
> To get the idea:
> one hand would go up/down and it would be translated
> as bow movement. The more on the right the louder the
> sound. The other hand controls the pitch in the vertical
> direction and another parameter ("metallic" sound let's
> say) in the horizontal direction. Visual data sampled
> at the frequency of the camera. Colored gloves to quickly
> find the hands in the image. Well, pretty basic stuff.
>
> Thanks,
> Cédric.
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