How the Wacom Guitar Works

The Speech Guitar controls an application suite of standalone Patches made with Cycling 74’s graphical programming environment MaxMSP that includes Netochka Nezvanova’s Nato.0+55+3d (running on the OS 9 Macintosh platform). The applications utilise the Apple MacInTalk 3 speech synthesiser which is a text-to-speech (TTS) application. This needs to process text from a buffer embedded in the application or read data from linked external text files.

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Wacom Guitar Current Interface

Interface Inlay mapped to the 203.2 x 164.4 mm surface area of the Wacom Intuos tablet 27th March 2006 for Speech Guitar

This interface was used for the Takaway Festival 06, Futuresonic 06, Nuit Blanche 06, Digital wellbeing 06, and NIME 07

Low res version of the inlay card

Basic mapping principle diagram

Interactive Demo of how the Interface inlay card is mapped to the TTS pitch parameter (click the panel below)