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Hi David,
2009/10/12 david 
> nescivi wrote:

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> > On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:36:55 Carlos Sanchiavedraz wrote:

> >> Hi dear folks.

> >>

>

[...]

>

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> 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?

--

Carlos "sanchiavedraz"

* Musix GNU+Linux

 http://www.musix.es
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nescivi wrote:

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> 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<=

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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 hack=

ed given the present keyswitches, electrical contacts (or I think capacitor=

s on old ones), scan codes and other stuff.
Do you know any work about that?-- Carlos "san=

chiavedraz"* Musix GNU+Linux =A0http://www.musix.es
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