The Cosmic Guitar App
Make music, not sounds.
We invented a new kind of guitar made of electricity and light called a photonic guitar. The photonic guitar physically makes music, but not sounds. To make this new instrument accessible we created the Cosmic Guitar effects app to translate and apply measurements of the photonic guitar as an audible effect for your electric guitar.
Cosmic Guitar Demos
Inspired by the End of Stars
We demonstrate a few of the included presets and musical effects available from the Cosmic Guitar effects app. The presets and instrument tones were inspired by the heavy distortions caused by the extreme physics of stars in their final forms.
Hear the Light
How we use light like sound
Our everyday experience with light and sound are of course very different. The difference in physics is primarily driven by the size of light waves vs sound waves. The light we see has wave sizes 100 – 200 times smaller than the width of a human hair. In contrast, sound waves can be as large as 50 ft. To get electricity and light to act more like sound the photonic guitar uses light the same size, or wavelength, as sounds made by an acoustic guitar. In contrast, an electric guitar matches the same frequencies as an acoustic guitar.
Speed of Light
Why the Cosmic Guitar is an App
We can’t effectively play photonic guitars without technology. Light is roughly a million times faster than sound. If we want to use light like music then we need to play songs a million times faster. Until then, we have the Cosmic Guitar.
The Cosmic Guitar App is the easiest way to play with these new photonic guitars. We used our physics and software expertise to create an effects app that uses measurements of a photonic guitar, along with the physics of light, to apply the effect of a resonant photonic guitar body to your electric guitar.
The App Interface
Toggle, swipe, and adjust to find your perfect tone. Go crazy with possibilities.
It’s an effects pedal for your electric guitar. Using the Cosmic Guitar app you can vary the modeled photonic guitar to create new instrument tones and effects and apply them to your music. To connect your guitar to the Cosmic Guitar App a USB iOS guitar interface is required.
REAL and IMAGINARY:
Vary the electrical impedance of the guitar strings.
PLATE and BODY:
Vary the size and other properties of the guitar top plate and guitar body.
OUTPUT:
Vary the strength of the guitar plate and body responses, plug-in output levels, chorus/delay section, and guitar string behavior selector.
MODE SELECTOR:
Load/store presets and guitar model options.
FREQUENCY SPECTRUM:
Select between different tabs to view different frequency spectrums of the guitar or strings.
Get ready to take your music to the next level. Download the Cosmic Guitar app today!