Re: [LAU] Controllers and stuff for live performance

Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote:
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> 2009/10/13 david <gnome@email-addr-hidden <mailto:gnome@email-addr-hidden>>
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> Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote:
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> > 2009/10/12 david <gnome@email-addr-hidden
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> > Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote:
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> > Hi David,
> >
> > 2009/10/12 david <gnome@email-addr-hidden
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> > 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...
> >
> >
> > Ok :).
> >
> > Then, I'm not sure, but I think what you refer is called
> "aftertouch":
> > http://www.google.com/search?q=aftertouch+keyboard
>
> Hmmm, hadn't run into that. I read the Wikipedia article about it. The
> three forms of aftertouch they mention don't seem to include my idea of
> directional movement while holding the key down.
>
> But an array of Trackpoints might be interesting as a control input,
> too.
>
> So you say something like to achieve little variations of notes
> ("vibrato" alike) depending on the key/finger movement, isn't it? I
> think there is something like that in really expensive
> keyboards/controllers, but not sure.

Could well be. My experience combining computers with MIDI keyboards is
limited and doesn't include any high-end controllers ...

-- 
David
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