An Accessible Digital Musical Instrument for playing chords.

Please refer to the Netychords page on Nicola Davanzo's personal website for more informations, instrument description and usage guide.

Requirements

• A computer equipped with a Windows operating system
• Any sensor capable of moving the mouse cursor, which will be used for chord selection and to navigate the interface
  • (Suggested) an eye tracker, with some proper software
  • (Suggested) an eye tracker, with a NITH wrapper software
• (Optional but suggested) any of these NITH sensors, which will control strumming intensity and dynamics
  • NITHheadTracker - which provides the original interaction method for which Netychords was thought for
  • NITHbreathSensor
  • NITHbiteSensor

If you don't possess any of these sensors you will still be able to try Netychords using your mouse, and play using the spacebar.

Installation and running

1. Download the latest release from the Releases page
2. Unzip the archive
3. Run Netychords.exe

Contribution

Netychords is licensed through a GNU GPL-v3 Free Open-Source software license. Feel free to fork this repository and contribute!

Dependencies

• .NET 8, which SDK and development tools can be automatically downloaded within the Visual Studio installer
• Netychords depends on NITHlibrary and NITHdmis. Please clone both of them, and place them in an adjacent folder to your Netychords folder. Visual Studio should automatically locate them after opening Netychords.sln

Issues

If you have any issue and/or proposal related to Netychords, please open a GitHub issue on the Issues page of this repository, or write an e-mail to: nicola(dot)davanzo(at)unimi(dot)it

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Matteo De Filippis, one of our thesis students, for the development of the first version of Netychords. <3