[sdiy] MIDI velocity

[Richie Burnett]

Very interesting.  Many thanks for sharing this!

-Richie,


-----Original Message----- 
From: Neil Johnson 
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 8:20 PM 
To: synth-diy 
Subject: Re: [sdiy] MIDI velocity 

I wrote:

> 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.

Found it, and hosted up on github:

https://github.com/nejohnson/kbdscan

The keyboard scanner talks to a 74LS154 on the keyboard assembly, and
generates key on and off events with associated velocities.  There's
also code for reading some analogue inputs and a footswitch, but
that's not important right now.

Neil
--
http://www.njohnson.co.uk
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