Part five!

Interactive Sound Environments: Blog part five

I have started to record my own guitar samples for my project via a DI box, I will have possibly 5 - 6 velocity levels for each sound, I will be recording at the moment all the strings by basic plectrum picking. 

The reason I am choosing this way of getting samples is because I want to only get the original sound of the guitar and not the sound of an amp, I want it like this because my project will be mainly only about the natural guitar sound so the users can create music by either playing on a keyboard or drawing in notes of the 'piano roll' option.

After that the users will be able to use my programme with other programmes so they may add their own effects such as distortion, amp cabs ect.

Below are pictures of my set up for recording my samples.

 

I had to make sure all my strings were new and perfectly in tune for recording my samples. Once all my files are up and running I will be creating a item on Max MSP 6 to make it playable on a midi keyboard and create something to make velocity work with it also. Then I will create an option so the user may open this using any software they like to create more sounds with my samples.