Abstract
Learning to play a string instrument takes years of practice. Novice players even find it difficult to play correct pitches, and chromatic tuners that visualize the errors in the played pitches have long been used as an effective aid. However, chromatic tuners can detract users’ visual attention from more essential visual cues such as musical scores. As an alternative, we have been developing HapTune (Haptic Tuner), which conveys the pitch errors to the user using haptic feedback. In this paper, we present an initial design of HapTune that relies on spatiotemporal information coding using two vibrotactile actuators. We also verified that the vibrotactile stimuli provided by HapTune can be easily recognized by a user experiment.
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Cent is a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals. In the equal tempered scale, 100 cents correspond to a semitone. The ratio between frequencies one cent apart is \(2^{\frac{1}{1200}}\) \((\approx 1.00057779)\). The pitch error in cent is calculated by
$$ e_{cent} = 1200 \times log_{2}{\frac{f_{p}}{f_{d}}} $$where \(f_p\) is the frequency of played pitch and \(f_d\) is desired frequency of the pitch. For example, a user plays A4 (440 Hz) with 445 Hz, the error is 19.56 cents.
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This work was supported in part by NRF through a Mid-Career Researcher Grant 2013R1AA2A2A01016907, a Pioneer program 2011-0027994 and a Global Ph.D. Fellowship 2011-0008614, and by NIPA through an ITRC 2013-H0301-13-3005.
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Yoo, Y., Choi, S. (2014). An Initial Study on Pitch Correction Guidance for String Instruments Using Haptic Feedback. In: Auvray, M., Duriez, C. (eds) Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications. EuroHaptics 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8618. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44193-0_31
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