[sdiy] MIDI velocity

[Neil Johnson]

Interesting thread indeed.

About 7 years ago when I was writing the keyboard scanning code for a
Siel Opera 6 I had a simple scheme for scanning and measuring play and
release velocity (not many folks seem to know about release velocity
although some synthesizers do recognise it).

Using an Atmel ATMega8 scanning the entire keyboard every 1ms I run
4-state state machine for each key, where the states are UP,
GOINGDOWN, DOWN, GOINGUP, and an 8-bit counter for each key.
Debouncing is handled by the algorithm rather than a separate
debouncing step.  With the right encoding of the states you can do
most of the testing and state transitions using btiwise operations, 8
keys at a time (on a 32-bit processor you could do 32 keys at a time).

I'll try and dig out the code and sling it up on github sometime.
It's all in C, no assembler required.

Neil
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