[sdiy] Magnetic field

[Tom Arnold]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:07:15PM -0600, Ian Fritz wrote:
> ROFL!  Sure, if you are just going to do digital then any old thing will 
> do.  (Still less circuitry with magnetic, though.)  But there was also a 
> suggestion of doing per-key aftertouch (don't ask me why).  Once you get 
> into analog, optical has lots of gotchas.

Per-key aftertouch is kind of a side benefit, if you like aftertouch, of
doing this.  Not that poly aftertouch would be of much use in a Minimoog,
but I'm thinking more of when I convert the Syntauri keyboards...

Lets just say when I think "optical" I think Optigan. :-)

The only drawback I can see to magnetic is if there is key to key
interference and I think the magnets I have in mind are focused enough to
minimize this.

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