Just... putting this out there...

[shinyhappydeath]

Not very often... but every once and awhile I'll read about some new thing (be it a game, a convention, or some sort of service) that at some point previous to its unveiling I had some moment where I thought 'Hey, this might be a money-making scheme

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[shippo]

Someone's already sort of doing this, sans the multiplayer "band" aspects.

[shinyhappydeath]

Shit, I'm going to have to buy that when it comes out.

..but first I have to run to the PTO and file some papers.

[kreeblah]

Couple of things here. First off, one possibility would be that you could run the DSP client-side and send the data to the server which would then verify it against a state machine to determine whether the input is valid for the state the player is in and discard it if it isn't. It'd still be more expensive than just blindly accepting input but would be less painful than doing on-the-fly DSP for multiple sources. I have no idea how well you could get something like that to scale, but it at least seems like it might be workable in some fashion

[shinyhappydeath]

First off, let's be clear: This idea falls into the first category (ie: I have no means to even start doing this

[shinyhappydeath]

But also let me point out that I think "Guitar WoW" would be fun as fuck to play.

[iris_of_ether]

Dammit to hell - why do you make the DSP post when I'm in Milwaukee visiting folks? :P I don't even have solid Internet. (Note: that should hint you about how I'm accessing LJ....)

On the plus side for my situation, though, I can relay that Prof. Schwartz says 'Hi'. :)

[shinyhappydeath]

Ha ha! Low bandwidth is funny!