nescivi wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:36:55 Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote: >> Hi dear folks. >> >> I would like to do some kind of a survey to know about configs, setups, >> controllers, etc that you have come to over the years and based on your own >> experience. (Well, I already know some of yours for your mails on the list) >> >> It's usual to see piano keyboards and controller boards, i.e. Behringer >> BCF/BCR2000 or FCB1010. >> >> But more than this kind of consumer products, which I know many of them, >> I'm rather interested in something like (inexpensive and) strange MIDI >> controllers, pedal boards, Arduinos, DIY HW... that allow controlling and >> have interaction with applications, whether it's Ardour, Rosegarden, >> Freewheeling, Sooperlooper, Pd, Supercolider, Mixxx ... >> >> Why this? I've been willing for a long time now to buy an audio interface >> with MIDI and maybe some controller, but at the moment I'm still stuck with >> just my keyboard and mouse; it's ok with DAWs but an inconvenient when >> using live loopers (most of all when playing guitar, and without a MIDI >> interface). > > Check out http://www.sensorwiki.org > it has a good list of interfaces and sensors to use for them, > and a link to a taxonomy of digital instruments (by far incomplete, but > still). > Also http://www.nime.org may point you to some of the stuff that's out there. I had a thought re keyboards (particularly the keys themselves). Why can't the surface of a key be a touchpad-like surface sensitive to pressure and even movement? So, for example, you could play a violin note, hold it, and use finger pressure and movement on the key surface itself to do vibrato the way a violinist would? That would go a long ways toward bringing human expressiveness back into playing the sounds of such expressive instruments as strings and woodwinds. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
