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Continuous Gesture-Sound Interaction

Environment

Tested using Cycling '74 Max 8.0.6 MacOS 10.14.5 and Windows 10

Dependencies

How to

Set-up a project

  1. Open Myo Connect and connect Myo armband

  2. Open the Wekinator project in the folder continuous-gesture-sound-interaction⁩/⁨Wekinator⁩/⁨gsi_0.2⁩. You can also create a new Wekinator fit the following settings:

    • Receiving OSC port: 6448
    • Inputs: OSC message /wek/inputs, number of inputs 14
    • Outputs: OSC message /wek/outputs, number of outputs 4
    • Host: localhost, port number 12000
    • Type: All continuous, (default settings)
  3. Open the ⁨the Max project gesture_sound_interaction_2.0 in the folder continuous-gesture-sound-interaction⁩/gesture_sound_interaction_2.0⁩

Design gestures for continuous sonic interaction

  1. Play the sound from the bigger play button in the Sound Design pannel.
  2. Select one of the first three presets
  3. Choose one of those and perform the sound tracing exercise.
  4. Once the you want to record your sound trace, then press the record gesture button in the Gesture Design pannel.
  5. Later, find the poses related to the four anchor-points and record the by selecting the anchor point and then press the related anchorpoint related button.
  6. Now you can choose one of the machine learning approaches and explore the sound with the same or new gestures.

Use your own synthesiser

In the case you want to use the GSI with a different synth you set your synth to receive the OSC messages set through the OSC Communication GUI pannel. Messages are listed in the OSC communication page.

OSC Communication

GSI-Wekinator

From GSI to Wekinator

  • Default host IP address: 127.0.0.1
  • Default sender Port Number: 6448

Messages:

Value Type Tag
Myo values vector of 16 float /wek/inputs
Synth parameters vector of 4 float /wekinator/control/outputs
Start Recording /wekinator/control/startRecording
Stop Recording /wekinator/control/stopRecording
Train model /wekinator/control/train
Start Running /wekinator/control/startRunning
Stop Running /wekinator/control/stopRunning
Delete recorded data /wekinator/control/deleteAllExamples

From Wekinator to GSI

  • Default host IP address: 127.0.0.1
  • Default sender Port Number: 12000

GSI-Synth

From GSI to synthesiser

  • Default host IP address: 127.0.0.1
  • Default sender Port Number: 5567

Messages:

Value Type Tag
Parameter 1 float /tosynth/parameter1
Parameter 2 float /tosynth/parameter2
Parameter 3 float /tosynth/parameter3
Parameter 4 float /tosynth/parameter4

From Synthesiser to GSI

  • Default host IP address: 127.0.0.1
  • Default sender port number: 5568

Messages:

Value Type Tag
Value Parameter 1 float /fromsynth/parameter1/value
Min Parameter 1 float /fromsynth/parameter1/min
Max Parameter 1 float /fromsynth/parameter1/max
Name Parameter 1 String /fromsynth/parameter1/paramName
Value Parameter 2 float /fromsynth/parameter2/value
Min Parameter 2 float /fromsynth/parameter2/min
Max Parameter 2 float /fromsynth/parameter2/max
Name Parameter 2 String /fromsynth/parameter2/paramName
Value Parameter 3 float /fromsynth/parameter3/value
Min Parameter 3 float /fromsynth/parameter3/min
Max Parameter 3 float /fromsynth/parameter3/max
Name Parameter 3 String /fromsynth/parameter3/paramName
Value Parameter 4 float /fromsynth/parameter4/value
Min Parameter 4 float /fromsynth/parameter4/min
Max Parameter 4 float /fromsynth/parameter4/max
Name Parameter 4 String /fromsynth/parameter4/paramName