You insert the fingers and then the palm of your right hand into the silicon D-shaped Right-Hand D Vice, catching it in place.
Sliding your RH (right-hand) thumb on the bottom button of the D Vice gives a down strum. For an upstrum - slide your RH middle finger across the upper button. Slap the
button and you get a muted strum.
You can turn the metronome on or off by pinching the D Vice with both fingers. A long pinch turns on or turns off the tactile metronome vibration, which is ticking away without making a sound, and only you feel it.
All sounds are from the connected (wireless) MIDI device and its speakers. The sound does not emit from the D Vices on your hands.
The left side D Vice is D shaped as well and wraps the palm of your left hand in the same way that the right side D Vice does, except that there's a tennis ball shape in the palm of your left hand. On it is an elliptical-shaped clockface, the Chord Elipse, controlled by the left thumb.
The tone is set by "the hour": 6 o'clock is D, so that the notes are in a symmetric layout. (G and A are 11 and 1 on both sides of the black key 12). The outer elipse is for major chords while as we move into the circle we choose minor chords. Adding the other fingers creates a 6, a 7, diminished or augmented.
If the scale or the chord set is chosen, other chords are disabled or not shown. A chord played shows a triangle between the note "hours" played on the Chord Elipse. When there is a Right Angle (on a round clockface) it means that we are looking at a symmetrical chord which means it is a minor chord. (for example 9-12-3 which is F minor). The Minor chord angle will be accented with a small m in it. In the center the chord name will be shown with its tablature.
Pressing the pinky changes the choice of chords to the choice of fingering.
Strumming is done by sliding the fingers on the side of the D Vice, but once the pace and strumming pattern is chosen you may choose to continue looping or doing a one-time strum. Record by pressing the red button in the center, and again to stop.
A smart looping mode, it may do variations on its own, or remember more than one pattern during chord progression round.
When in looping mode what you do with your fingers may add variations and control them. Not sure how.
Shaking the hands can add drum sounds. But that's a whole new operation for generation two of D Vice. (I didn't check yet on google but I'm quite sure of two things: 1. There is already something called D Vice. 2. There is already a strumming input device that will replace the guitar for playing chords. And it is thought out and has been tried already.
And then again, some more things:
3. In D Vice generation 3, there will be an easy way to play the keyboard with D Vice using eight keys for the fingers and another free area for the thumb.
4. Somebody will show me that the D Vice isn't comfortable and a different shape would be much better.
5. Generation 4 will be a Fingertip Vice that discards all the buttons and works with a tactile interface indicating what you are pressing using gestures only.
6. Music making will be a lot of fun, but also very easy.
7. Eventually people will rely on AI and lose all their imagination.
8. This idea was written by my new AI.