<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/13 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;">
<div class="im">Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote:<br>
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> 2009/10/12 david <<a href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a>>><br>
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> 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">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a><br>
</div>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a><br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a>>>><br>
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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<br>
> themselves). Why<br>
> can't the surface of a key be a touchpad-like surface<br>
> sensitive to<br>
> pressure and even movement? So, for example, you could play a<br>
> violin<br>
> note, hold it, and use finger pressure and movement on the<br>
> key surface<br>
> itself to do vibrato the way a violinist would? That would go<br>
> a long<br>
> ways toward bringing human expressiveness back into playing<br>
> 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<br>
> just cares about keypresses; nothing about pressure or velocity,<br>
> although maybe something could be hacked given the present<br>
> keyswitches, electrical contacts (or I think capacitors on old<br>
> 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<br>
> keyboards, not computer keyboards ... although I suppose you that if<br>
> you ganged some Trackpoints (IBM's little eraser pointer tool)<br>
> together, you could get take advantage of the Trackpoint's<br>
> directional abilities.<br>
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> It was just an idea that I think would be great. Don't know if<br>
> anyone is working on anything even remotely like it...<br>
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</div></div><div class="im">> Ok :).<br>
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> 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" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?q=aftertouch+keyboard</a><br>
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</div>Hmmm, hadn't run into that. I read the Wikipedia article about it. The<br>
three forms of aftertouch they mention don't seem to include my idea of<br>
directional movement while holding the key down.<br>
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But an array of Trackpoints might be interesting as a control input, too.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
</div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Carlos "sanchiavedraz"<br>* Musix GNU+Linux<br> <a href="http://www.musix.es">http://www.musix.es</a><br>