[sdiy] Velocity/Position sensing

[Justin Owen]

Hello,

I've been asked to look into the idea of designing an electronic percussion instrument that emulates the surface of a skinned percussion instrument - i.e. playing different parts of the skin/surface will give you a different sound/timbre/etc.

Can anyone point me in some directions to start researching a pad/surface that could read/sense both velocity/pressure/force and position - say, some sort of X/Y co-ordinate?

At this stage the idea is that the values could be read and converted into CV information via a microcontroller - but I'm open to any and all suggestions.

I've found a few potential leads - but I thought there might be some good clues on this list. Thanks in advance.

Justin