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« on: September 12, 2008, 03:49:51 »
I was playing guitar the other day, and noticing how easy it is to find the right notes for a song by sliding the finger on the fret until it sounds just right.
Maybe Nitrotracker could take advantage of this same effect, by emulating it on a touchscreen. Older PC trackers didn't have this same opportunity, since doing this with the mouse would feel unnatural. But with the touchscreen you can just slide directly with the pen.
This is the way I have imagined it inside NitroTracker:
1. the user selects a new mode called the "slider-keyboard"
2. user slides the pen until he/she finds a note - the tracker will sound the currently selected instrument, changing the frequency according to the Y-axis position of the pen
3. press the A button to store the note on a "buffer" (it could be represented graphically, perhaps on the opposite screen)
4. go back to the normal mode, still persisting the full buffer
5. press play and start recording
6. the user will tap the screen in the appropriate rhythm, while consuming and pasting the notes from the buffer
Bonus points: in the "slider-keyboard" mode, also accept input from the microphone: the user could whistle a note and press A to copy it to the buffer. The tracker would show the note that is being "heard" even before it is copied to the buffer, so that the user knows it is on the right scale.
My 2 cents.
