26 Sep
2009
26 Sep
'09
10:21 a.m.
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 05:07:26PM +0200, Albin Stigo
wrote:
For release velocity it's the same as for poly pressure, I don't know
any keyboard providing this. The only unusual function provided by a
keyboard I know is breath control. My Yamaha DX7 supports breath control.
I don't think hat there will be a lot of receiving devices that can
handle release velocity and poly pressure.
A nice feature I can imagine might be to have only 3 or 4 fix velocities
for each key (maybe this can be done by the "Custom velocity curves")
and a fix note length (for this the keyboard needs to receive timing
information by a sequencer), but both, velocity and length for each key
individually and maybe the length should be set individually by the
velocity of a note. Why? E.g. to control drum samples. For this it also
might be interesting to have the option to split the keyboard not only
in zones, but to enable to give each key a wanted, individual MIDI
channel. I know that this is also something some sequencers can do by a
matrix especially for drums, but it might be interesting for a master
keyboard to.
Ralf
I'm new to the list so I hope this is not the
wrong forum!
I've been working on a midi keyboard ("physical" hardware 88-keys
"professional" = no toy) for a while for which I plan to release the
schematics and source as open source.
It's based around a Fatar keybed (they make Studiologic) and an Atmel
AVR mcu. The code is all in C and is very portable.
Current features are:
- Velocity sensitivity.
- Pedal support.
- Custom velocity curves.
- Only normal MIDI serial "current" link. No USB, yet...
My questions are, Is there an interest in this sort of thing..? What
features would you like to see, what are you missing from
off-the-shelf products?
I'd be much interested *iff* it would also generate
velocity for key release. This is provided in the MIDI
format but very few keyboars implement it.
Ciao,