The Wahwactor: a voice controlled wah-wah pedal

  • Authors:
  • Alex Loscos;Thomas Aussenac

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain;Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • NIME '05 Proceedings of the 2005 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Using a wah-wah pedal guitar is something guitar players have to learn. Recently, more intuitive ways to control such effect have been proposed. In this direction, the Wahwactor system controls a wah-wah transformation in real-time using the guitar player's voice, more precisely, using the performer [wa-wa] utterances. To come up with this system, different vocal features derived from spectral analysis have been studied as candidates for being used as control parameters. This paper details the results of the study and presents the implementation of the whole system.