Hi David,
2009/10/12 david <gnome@email-addr-hidden>
> nescivi wrote:
> > On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:36:55 Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote:
> >> Hi dear folks.
> >>
>
[...]
>
> I had a thought re keyboards (particularly the keys themselves). Why
> can't the surface of a key be a touchpad-like surface sensitive to
> pressure and even movement? So, for example, you could play a violin
> note, hold it, and use finger pressure and movement on the key surface
> itself to do vibrato the way a violinist would? That would go a long
> ways toward bringing human expressiveness back into playing the sounds
> of such expressive instruments as strings and woodwinds.
>
>
Yes, that would be great. But AFAIK the circuit inside keyboards just cares
about keypresses; nothing about pressure or velocity, although maybe
something could be hacked given the present keyswitches, electrical contacts
(or I think capacitors on old ones), scan codes and other stuff.
Do you know any work about that?
-- Carlos "sanchiavedraz" * Musix GNU+Linux http://www.musix.es
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