[LAU] Controllers and stuff for live performance

[nescivi]

On Monday 12 October 2009 01:36:14 david wrote:
> nescivi wrote:
> > On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:36:55 Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote:
> >> Hi dear folks.
> >>
> >> I would like to do some kind of a survey to know about configs, setups,
> >> controllers, etc that you have come to over the years and based on your
> >> own experience. (Well, I already know some of yours for your mails on
> >> the list)
> >>
> >> It's usual to see piano keyboards and controller boards, i.e. Behringer
> >> BCF/BCR2000 or FCB1010.
> >>
> >> But more than this kind of consumer products, which I know many of them,
> >>  I'm rather interested in something like (inexpensive and) strange MIDI
> >>  controllers, pedal boards, Arduinos, DIY HW... that allow controlling
> >> and have interaction with applications, whether it's Ardour, Rosegarden,
> >> Freewheeling, Sooperlooper, Pd, Supercolider, Mixxx ...
> >>
> >> Why this? I've been willing for a long time now to buy an audio
> >> interface with MIDI and maybe some controller, but at the moment I'm
> >> still stuck with just my keyboard and mouse; it's ok with DAWs but an
> >> inconvenient when using live loopers (most of all when playing guitar,
> >> and without a MIDI interface).
> >
> > Check out http://www.sensorwiki.org
> > it has a good list of interfaces and sensors to use for them,
> > and a link to a taxonomy of digital instruments (by far incomplete, but
> > still).
> > Also http://www.nime.org may point you to some of the stuff that's out
> > there.
> 
> 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.

Look up what David Wessel at CNMAT is working with these days. Pretty much 
what you're interested in.

sincerely,
Marije