Hello everyone
My next project is going to be a 50/50 digital and analogue electric guitar. I've only thought a little bit about the neck and fret positions, but right now I want to focus on the striking of strings with the other hand. I'm thinking about having 6 guitarstrings, roughly 15 cm long, attached between two points where you normally play the strings on a real guitar. Instead of measuring both frequency and amplitude of the strings with regular guitar pickups, I want to be able to get the amplitude (how strongly the string has been struck), of each string so that I can combine it with the fret position activated to output a sound.
I've tried to find a sensor suitable for this purpose, but I'm struggling. Could one use some sort of transducer? Maybe if you attach one end of the string to a vibration sensor that outputs an electrical signal with increasing amplitude if the vibration becomes more "violent"? Maybe having a magnet on the part where the string is attached that vibrates with the string so that you could have a hall effect sensor on the guitar?
How the guitar functions as a whole is not something I've thought about so this post is focused on just getting information about how hard the strings have been struck.
Greatful for all answers!
My next project is going to be a 50/50 digital and analogue electric guitar. I've only thought a little bit about the neck and fret positions, but right now I want to focus on the striking of strings with the other hand. I'm thinking about having 6 guitarstrings, roughly 15 cm long, attached between two points where you normally play the strings on a real guitar. Instead of measuring both frequency and amplitude of the strings with regular guitar pickups, I want to be able to get the amplitude (how strongly the string has been struck), of each string so that I can combine it with the fret position activated to output a sound.
I've tried to find a sensor suitable for this purpose, but I'm struggling. Could one use some sort of transducer? Maybe if you attach one end of the string to a vibration sensor that outputs an electrical signal with increasing amplitude if the vibration becomes more "violent"? Maybe having a magnet on the part where the string is attached that vibrates with the string so that you could have a hall effect sensor on the guitar?
How the guitar functions as a whole is not something I've thought about so this post is focused on just getting information about how hard the strings have been struck.
Greatful for all answers!