Re: [sdiy] Weird new idea for keyboards, anyone?

[Roman]

indeed, amazing
I especially like the full size version price :)

It's so nice of them that they explain how it works internally. Lots of bars and hall sensors. Neat. The scanning software looks like hungry for MIPS.
I may be wrong here but it reminds me a "keyboard" that Dr Duran-Duran played in Barbarella movie. I know, everybody else watched naked Jane Fonda then, but I was impressed by this keyboard for years.

There's another very simple solution if you compare it to what hakenaudio makes. It's a photosensors strip put at the top of any keyboard, and it generates MIDI messages with velocity. This is made by good uncle Bob - www.bigbriar.com
Dirt cheap comparing to hakenaudio.
Anybody making DIY version of it? Scanning 61 reflective optocouplers for Juno60 can't be that hard...
OTOH synth keys aren't moving much at the top, so what's easy in piano, may be tricky in synths.

Roman

---- Wiadomość Oryginalna ----
Od: Peter Grenader <peter at buzzclick-music.com>
Do: "R. D. Davis" <rdd at rddavis.org>, synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Data: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 23:52:27 -0700
Temat: Re: [sdiy] Weird new idea for keyboards, anyone?

>R. D. Davis wrote:
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>> Has anyone given any thought to the possibility of some sort of
>> keyboard cover consisting of a velocity or pressure-sensive membrane,
>> or somesuch, which could be attached to attenuation circuitry?
>
>It's called the Continuum Fingerboard.  Go here:
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>www.hakenaudio.com
>
>There's a movie you can watch of the thing being used.  amazing controller.
>Not cheap, just amazing
>
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