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SoundGate Guitar
AI Music Tutor that gives real-time feedback on your playing
516 followers
AI Music Tutor that gives real-time feedback on your playing
516 followers
SoundGate Guitar is an AI practice companion that actually listens to you play. Get instant visual feedback on an interactive fretboard with zero-lag note detection. The built-in AI tutor analyzes your playing to provide personalized feedback, custom practice routines, and answers to any guitar question.
congrats on the launch! this looks like the perfect excuse for me to finally start learning guitar :)
are you planning to add support for more musical instruments?
@sipan_babertsyan no more excuses :))
SoundGate Guitar
@sipan_babertsyan no more excuses, Sipan! 😉 We'd be honored to be your first guitar teacher. Grab a guitar and let's go!
SoundGate Guitar
@sipan_babertsyan Definitely! We have experience across many instruments and are exploring where to go next. Most likely, it’ll be an instrument that pairs well with guitar so people can jam together. 🎸
Real-time note and chord detection could make practice much more useful than getting a score afterward. How well does it handle background noise or playing through an amp?
SoundGate Guitar
@adityaharish2002 our engine is pretty robust at isolating guitar frequencies through your device's mic, even when playing through an amp! But if you want the absolute perfect noise-free experience, you can actually plug your electric guitar or amp directly into your Mac using a USB audio interface.
The real-time fretboard feedback is the part I would actually use - finally something that listens instead of making me watch a video and guess if I am doing it right. The thing I would want to know before making it a daily habit: does it save any record of what I have practiced or how I have improved over time, or is each session fresh? Knowing I can look back at what I was struggling with two weeks ago would make the practice habit much easier to stick to.
SoundGate Guitar
@leo404 that guessing game with videos is exactly why we built the real-time fretboard. And you are going to love this: not only does the AI remember your entire session history, but we actually have beautiful charts showing your progress over time! You can visually look back, see exactly what you were struggling with two weeks ago, and watch those metrics improve.
Real-time feedback is the one part of learning guitar you can't get without a teacher in the room. Everything else is already on YouTube. Curious whether it's catching timing and cleanliness or mostly pitch, since that distinction is basically the whole product.
SoundGate Guitar
@lucasjpols YouTube is a fantastic library, but a terrible mirror. The engine doesn't just check pitch - it actively analyzes your timing and the cleanliness of your playing (like catching muted strings or fret buzz) in real-time. We wanted it to feel like a real teacher actually listening to how you play, not just what you play.
AskCodi
real-time feedback is the bit that changes practice, how hard was the note detection to get feeling this responsive?
SoundGate Guitar
@shreyans_assistiv spot on! To answer your question: it took a lot of coffee and sleepless nights! Nailing that zero-lag responsiveness was incredibly challenging, but seeing the fretboard light up instantly the moment you hit a chord makes it completely worth it. Appreciate the support!
real-time feedback is the exact thing a weekly lesson can't give you, so that's a good wedge. curious how it holds up on a cheap audio interface.
SoundGate Guitar
@alex_watson2110 real-time course correction is everything for building good habits. And no worries about the gear - our zero-lag engine is super optimized, so even a basic, budget audio interface handles the detection flawlessly. Let us know how it works for you!
Real-time note detection on an interactive fretboard with no perceptible lag is a hard technical problem, nicely done. Curious about the audio pipeline given the USB interface support on macOS. How well does detection hold up with a distorted amp tone compared to a clean acoustic signal?
SoundGate Guitar
@adamkamaneh Great question! The algorithm is currently optimized for clean tones, so accuracy may drop with distortion. We’re working to improve detection across distortion and other effects. A USB interface generally improves accuracy by reducing background and microphone noise.