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[yamahacs80] Re: Poly-aftertouch question + idea

2009-10-26 by Laurie Curry

I believe that was the roland A90
-----Original message-----
From: "stevelenham" yahoo@...
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:31:07 -0600
To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [yamahacs80] Re: Poly-aftertouch question + idea

> 
> 
> --- In yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com, David Rogoff wrote:
> > I can't remember the details (someone help me out), but there was
a 
> > master keyboard years ago that could do a pseudo-poly-AT. The
keyboard 
> > itself was channel pressure, but it had a mode in which each
keypress 
> > went out on a different MIDI channel. It could then fake the
Poly-AT by 
> > sending pressure as mod wheel on just the MIDI channel of the
highest 
> > (lowest? last?) key pressed.
> 
> Thanks David, Laurie et al for your replies. It sounds like the
pseudo-poly-AT idea might have some merit, so I will probablypick up
one of the resistive sensors and have a play with it (for those
interested, they are made by Spectrastrip and available from Mouser in
the US and - less comprehensively and more expensively - Farnell here
in the UK).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Steve L.
> 
> 
> 

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