[sdiy] analogue guitar type controler thing

[harrybissell]

In that case I'd use the all analog solution... it would be very easy to do.
The EFM KBD1 module and a handfull of resistors would do it.

You could still use string "plucking" to get amplitude from.

There was a 70's project in Popular electronics called the (iirc) "Touch-a-Tone"
which was an instrument similar to what you are envisioning. I don't have the
article anymore but I'm sure some sick b at stard on this list probably DOES...

...so help Dom out, eh ???

Or how about a quantized ribbon controller ???

H^) harry

Dominic Tarr wrote:

> >I don't really follow what you're thinking, and I would like to see
> >something like this working, but wouldn't you need to press six
> >separate pieces of fretwire into each fret slot (and figure out how to
> >wire to them), and use a non-metallic bridge, to keep the whole mess
> >from just shorting together when you play notes on more than one
> >string? And are you planning on using a wired pick to trigger notes,
> >or a piezo bridge pickup, or?  And fret buzz will probably be an
> >issue.
>
> sorry, I forgot to mention a few things...
> there would only need to be one string going up the fretboard, because the mc202 is monophonic, and the trigger buttons will also transpose the note. prehaps your thinking too much of a guitar, I'm thinking of some thing that is halfway between a keyboard with a kneck, and an actual guitar (with  midi pickups or what ever...)