Joan Quintana wrote: > > > Very interesting. > > I'm also interested in this area, nothing to show at the moment. I'm working with arduino, > > great possibilities!! > > I don't understant if you want to map different areas from your surface to different > > instruments (cymbals, tom,...) or something different... > > In theory, if you have the strength of each signal independent, it is possible to calculate > > the (x,y) position, no? > The idea is to use the x-y coordinates as two independent parameters to a synthesiser, so the sound would vary smoothly between one point and another. A simple example would be to put a snare sound through a resonant low pass filter. The x coord would be the filter cutoff, and the y coord would be the resonance at the cutoff frequency. There are many other possibilities. I'm planning to use supercollider to make the actual sounds. > With arduino you have two posssibilities: > > 1) to build a midi controller itself: the arduino sends the midi messages and you need just a synthesizer to produce sound. It's a firmware solution. > 2) the software solution. You detect the signal in the usb port, and you need to program a little (or big) application to convert you signals to midi notes (or anything else that produces sound). In this case, I use Midishare, that for me is fantastic. There is already one year that I read the posts in this mailing list, and nobody speaks about midishare... I miss something? I there a better way to do that? > I think I'll have to go for 2 - the algorithm for mapping the sensor readings into coordinates looks like being too complex to run on a small board like the arduino. andy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
