So, me and a buddy of mine were talking about this idea, and just basically bouncing ideas off each other, this is often called brainstorming in a development process but you guys most likely already know that.
Two ideas came from it and I feel that both of these ideas are freaking awesome, and would not add much to cost or extra coding work.
1.) Stereo slider of some sort that lets the user put more or less volume to the left and right channel while they are playing, basically its a spring wheel that when you slide one way it makes the left channel louder and lower on the right channel, and when it lets go it resets to both channels equal, and the same happens for the right respectively. So what this does is gives the artist the ability to make it sound like birds are all over the forest and various other things while play
2.) The second thing that we thought about, is using tilt sensors (very cheap and easy to use, they are in ipods and other things) to be able to bend the notes via tilting the E-Oc left and right (or up and down), it would be pretty freaking kewl, I think at least, and plus might make it easier to add "emotion" to your songs in a way that you could do just via swaying to a sad song.
Tell me what you guys think? Is this something worth me doing? Either feature wouldn't take much work to add, and I think would really set the E-Oc above a normal OC.
Also stay tuned later today for my post on parts lists and some design stuff!
Feel free to leave comments guys and thanks alot for reading!
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Wow, tilting sounds really awesome! Just make sure you include a switch to turn it off as it might not always be desireable.
ReplyDeleteThe e-oc is going to be SO cool when it is finished...
Yeah, me and my buddy were just talking about that at lunch, making it so that its easy to shut off if not wanted.
ReplyDeleteYeah man, I cant wait either!
Only issue I foresee is that we'd have to stay in a certain position to play the ocarina pitch-perfect. It could get troublesome.
ReplyDeleteWell, the system could be configured to how would you say take into account little tips and topples with out doing anything.
ReplyDeleteI think maybe allowing the user to set a "sensitivity" on it via software or a slider switch (like a volume control) so that they could account for diffrent songs, or even adjust senstivity on the fly