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Re: "Dragging Instruments Around" meets "laptop live"...
At 11:29 AM 3/17/2003 -0800, Jesse Ray Lucas wrote:
>Interesting idea.
>
>I have been waiting for a QWERTY virtuoso to pop up, but haven't found
>him/her yet. Write a program to map your computer keyboard keys to MIDI
>notes. A good typist, with a little practice, could seriously shred.
>Strap
>on your computer keyboard like a guitar and go at it.
Check out Trollo (http://www.axxeom.fsnet.co.uk/trollo.htm). That's
supposed to let you do just what you're talking about. However, I haven't
been able to get it working properly yet (doesn't like Muzys for some
reason).
>Can anybody recommend a computer keyboard manufacturer that supports
>velocity sensitivity???
>
>That is a joke. Although, who knows... I can't imagine that I am the
>first
>one to think of this idea. It seems pretty obvious.
Nope, you're not the first to think of it. I figured out a way to make it
work a few years back, although I've never quite gotten around to actually
doing it:
I've had quite a bit of luck using homemade triggers (simple piezos) with
Pad-MIDI converters for various bits. Personally, I've got a couple of
Roland PM-16's laying about for just this type of thing. Just get one of
those converters and solder some triggers into a $10 replacement keypads
from Rat Shack. It should be roughly velocity-sensitive -- at least, they
are when you make drumpads out of them. The PM-16's, for example, have 16
inputs apiece, so two of them should be able to cover most of the
keypad. They're cheap on ebay as well.
Just an idea...
-c-
_____
"i want to reach my hand into the dark and *feel* what reaches back"
-recoil