2009/10/12 david <gnome@email-addr-hidden>
> 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
> gnome@email-addr-hidden
> authenticity, honesty, community
>
Ok :).
Then, I'm not sure, but I think what you refer is called "aftertouch":
http://www.google.com/search?q=aftertouch+keyboard
-- Carlos "sanchiavedraz" * Musix GNU+Linux http://www.musix.es
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