On Monday 12 October 2009 01:36:14 david wrote: > 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. Look up what David Wessel at CNMAT is working with these days. Pretty much what you're interested in. sincerely, Marije _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
