[sdiy] Aftertouch via Pressure

[Gene Stopp]

Yes ARP Soloist and Pro Sololist use CMOS foam under the hinged keyboard as
the pressure sensor. I forget what the Multimoog uses but I think it's the
same approach. Not sure about the ARP Pro DGX because I don't have one, but
I'll bet it's CMOS foam too. Hey I was at an ARP demo, at ABC Music in
Burbank back when I was in high school. Boy was that neat. Helped to put me
on this nutty road I'm on for life. The first first first wake-up call I
ever got was at Springfield Music in Northridge, where my buddy and I rode
our bikes to, and there was a Minikorg and a Synthacon in there. I'd like to
find both of those someday but the ebay prices at the moment are just too
steep.

- Gene


-----Original Message-----
From: harrybissell [mailto:harrybissell at prodigy.net]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 1:16 PM
To: Glen
Cc: jhaible at debitel.net; The Peasant; synthdiy at sdiy.org;
xyzzy at sysabend.org
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Aftertouch via Pressure


If you are willing to hinge the entire keyboard.... then optical, and
resistive
methods
are easy as well.

iirc (but it has been a long, long time) the ARP ProSoloist had aftertouch
from
a mechanically
pivoting keyboard...  otoh that one I saw was the FIRST time I saw any
synthesizer in the flesh... along with the Odyssey and 2600 models.  (high
school demonstration)

H^) harry