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> nescivi wrote:
> > On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:36:55 Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote:
> >> Hi dear folks.
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> 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.
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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.
> Do you know any work about that?
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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.
>
> It was just an idea that I think would be great. Don't know if
> anyone is working on anything even remotely like it...
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