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LASER GUITAR!
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LASER GUITAR
One problem I see is that as far as I am aware, current laser instruments only pick up if you have broken the laser, not where. As such they can't tell what note you are playing. You also wouldn't be picking the strings, you'd just be playing one of six notes with your fret hand.
In order to actually make this a useful instrument, the lasers would have to be purely ornamental. You could set up a touch-sensitive panel on the fretboard, then have six pressure-sensitive buttons down near your fingers. The buttons would be smooth, rounded and lightly-sprung so that you could play them with a pick if you really wanted to.
The touch-sensitive fretboard would also sense if you moved your fingers up and down the neck to slide, and also if you moved them laterally for bending. Perhaps it could also sense tapping as a different kind of touch, or you could flip a switch somehow (a foot pedal?) when you wanted to tap, then flip it back when you went back to playing normally.
In addition to all the "letting you actually play guitar" stuff, the touch panel fretboard could also light up where you touch it, perhaps in a different colour to the lasers. The colour could follow your fingers about like the swirls on an lcd screen when you touch it. All rippling about and fading after you move on. Big slides would look fantastic. The light would shine brighter if you pressed harder on the panel, and perhaps also when you bent a string.
PROBLEM: I CAN'T HAVE A LASER GUITAR
SOLUTION: SACKED UP AND THOUGHT OF A WAY IT COULD (kind of) WORK
HUZZAH
jcknbl:
Actually lasers can definitely read distance. We did experiments with that kind a shit in 8th grade. I'm not sure how it works exactly but it can definitely be done.
What if you replaced the normal lasers with super high voltage anti-balistic missile lasers? And so someone is all "LASER GUITAR!! HELL YEAH!"
And then they turn it on and bam! POWER CHORD!
"Ahhhh!!! My hand!"
Aneurhythmia:
I'm pretty sure the original design spec in the first post called for a touch-sensitive fingerboard.
penpen17:
I feel like it would be hard as hell to control how many strings you hit in a chord. Since there is no resistance, you cannot really tell how many strings you are hitting, and there is a large chance for accidental extra notes
Also, why not just play a keyboard? By this point, the sound is completely electronic anyway
jcknbl:
Sigh
We've been over this. A keyboard idea is crucially flawed because it isn't a LASER GUITAR.
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