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Vibrat-o-matic

Vibrat-o-matic makes singing fun! This tool stimulate muscles around neck and stomach to generate a clean vibrato easily. You can control, record and replay where to put vibrato and how strong vibrato you sing with.

Vibrat-o-matic is built on openEMSstim, open-hardware platform for controling EMS device. This is open source project and we appriciate if you give leave some advices, problems, PR or typo fixes on Issues page.

Architecture

Dependencies

  • node v6.7.0
  • npm
  • socket.io@1.4.8
  • express@4.14.0
  • serialport@4.0.3
  • jquery
  • pressure.js

How to use

  • Vibrat-o-matic works with openEMSstim, open-hardware module to adjust the intensity of EMS/TENS stimulators. Read its instruction to use EMS/TENS safely.

  • We modified arudino program on openEMSstim slightly: ours accepts Channel 2 to both activate Channel 0 and 1 on one command, and baud rate is set to 57600 (for performance reasons). Please use the arduino firmware on our fork instead of the original one.

0. Install npm dependencies

cd webapp
npm install

1. Launch HTTP server

Before testing, please make sure frequency of EMS is set to 5-8 Hz and intensity to minimum.

cd webapp
node index.js [Path to serial port]

Default [Path to serial port] is set to /dev/tty.usbserial-A9O3R1XL. You can know your path by running ls /dev/tty.usbserial* on bash when openEMSstim is connected to your machine via USB.

If web server launched successfully, you will see message like listening on *:3000. It means now the process wait for connection from web browser on port 3000. Open http://localhost:3000 on your browser.

2. Put electrodes

Neck and stomach are recommended place to put electrodes. We recommend start with stomach, but you can try both of them.

See a diagram below:

Where to put electrode

2. Test the features

On feature test section you can test if the system works.

Then set duration to 200ms and max intensity to 80%, and increase intensity of your EMS device until you can feel vibration of muscles enough for singing.

If Repeat checkbox is checked, the signal will be sent repeadedly.

Where to put electrode

3. Sing!

On Vibrat-o-matic! section you can control signal for singing.

Move Strength slider for control strength of vibrato. Instead you can drag mouse pointer on Drag Pad to control strength. You can see waveform on Waveform section (Note that the waveform is approximated. Frequency is dependent on your EMS setting).

Force Detection Button is for Apple devices which has force detecting trackpad (MacBook 2015, MacBook 2016) or 3D Touch (iPhone 6S, 7). The more strongly you pushed this button, the stronger vibrato you can get.

Below these sections you can see Song switcher, Play and Record buttons and Youtube video. Select a song from a switcher (or push Select Song to specify YouTube videoId) and push Play to sing on it. Record can record the parameters while you controlling vibrato and reproduce them on Play. Parameters on each song will shown on Parameters section on the left. Clear button will clear the parameters of the current song, and Export will export all parameters into json file.

Where to put electrode

4. Remote control

If you open port 3000 on your machine (already opened if your firewall is off), you can access the page from other device. You can control vibrato from your smartphone with opening http://192.168.0.1/remote.html (192.168.0.1 should be IP address of your machine).

In other word if you open port 3000 publicly, API of your EMS is accessible from world. Keep a close eye on security!

Enjoy your karaoke time!

LICENSE

All sources are under MIT license. Music, lyrics are not owned by the authors.

Authors and contributors

  • Ryohei Fushimi (client, server)
  • Eisuke Fujinawa (arduino, device, movie)

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