Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote: > Hi David, > > 2009/10/12 david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> > > nescivi wrote: > > On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:36:55 Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote: > >> Hi dear folks. > >> > > [...] > > > 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. > > > Yes, that would be great. But AFAIK the circuit inside keyboards just > cares about keypresses; nothing about pressure or velocity, although > maybe something could be hacked given the present keyswitches, > electrical contacts (or I think capacitors on old ones), scan codes and > other stuff. > Do you know any work about that? Sorry, I should have mentioned that I was talking about musical keyboards, not computer keyboards ... although I suppose you that if you ganged some Trackpoints (IBM's little eraser pointer tool) together, you could get take advantage of the Trackpoint's directional abilities. It was just an idea that I think would be great. Don't know if anyone is working on anything even remotely like it... -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
