[sdiy] Keyboards with Initial Touch?

[cheater]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:41:52 EDT, <WeAreAs1 at aol.com> wrote:


> BTW  --  I love that word.  Aftertouch.  A totally fabricated word, but a perf
> ect one.  I wonder if it has gone legit and appeared in any major
> dictionaries?
>

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=aftertouch

guess not :)

glen: your idea with pre-touch is really cool. Never thought of that.
Could be really interesting!

My ideas are:
1. axis controllers on the surface of the key, to know at which point of the key
it was struck, or at which point you are holding the finger (the latter
version would be a continuous controller)
2. axis controllers in the key mechanism - sensing how far the key is depressed.
It could be very cool if you could press a key just slightly, and not have
a full sound struck, just some part of it... etc.
Could work great with a sampler, where hitting a key slower would play the sample
back slower, or if you could sweep through the sample by sorta poking the key
back and forth :)
3. aftertouch on a per-key basis
4. a feedback mechanism - a vibration-thingie (a vibrator!!!! :P ) so as to "feel"
the note. Could be driven by the synth, and the very note being played by the key.
This would OWN.



I *do* think the state keyboard controllers are in now is still far too limiting.
Oh well, nothingness, nothingness :)

Cheers,
cheater