<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/12 david <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote:<br>
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Hi David,<br>
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2009/10/12 david <<a href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com" target="_blank">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com" target="_blank">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a>>><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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nescivi wrote:<br>
> On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:36:55 Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote:<br>
>> Hi dear folks.<br>
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I had a thought re keyboards (particularly the keys themselves). Why<br>
can't the surface of a key be a touchpad-like surface sensitive to<br>
pressure and even movement? So, for example, you could play a violin<br>
note, hold it, and use finger pressure and movement on the key surface<br>
itself to do vibrato the way a violinist would? That would go a long<br>
ways toward bringing human expressiveness back into playing the sounds<br>
of such expressive instruments as strings and woodwinds.<br>
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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.<br>
Do you know any work about that?<br>
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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.<br>
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It was just an idea that I think would be great. Don't know if anyone is working on anything even remotely like it...<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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-- <br>
David<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Ok :).<br><br>Then, I'm not sure, but I think what you refer is called "aftertouch":<br><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=aftertouch+keyboard">http://www.google.com/search?q=aftertouch+keyboard</a><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Carlos "sanchiavedraz"<br>* Musix GNU+Linux<br> <a href="http://www.musix.es">http://www.musix.es</a><br>