Re: [LAU] Controllers and stuff for live performance

Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> 2009/10/12 david <gnome@email-addr-hidden <mailto: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?

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I was talking about musical
keyboards, not computer keyboards ... although I suppose you that if you
ganged some Trackpoints (IBM's little eraser pointer tool) together, you
could get take advantage of the Trackpoint's directional abilities.

It was just an idea that I think would be great. Don't know if anyone is
working on anything even remotely like it...

-- 
David
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