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Originally Posted by Pete Galati
Bizarre. Never heard of that, whatever the sensor system is. What's it doing? Sounds like something triggering synthesizer circuits to my untrained ears
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It isn't a commercial product. I made it. The force sensing resistors (there are two) i think are controlling the L & R stereo spread and the registeral spread of the grains. The tilt is controlling the density? I can't remember, i did this in 2003... so
The data coming in from the x/y of the tilt and the pressure sensors can be mapped to do anything... you would map it according to the effect you were using, like tilt could open a filter or increase the delay time, the pressure sensors could be used to control pitch shift, or tremolo speed, it totally depends on the musical context. In this case we were not using it to control an effects box, but i wrote some code on the computer that chopped up the sounds in little bits. The sensors get fed into a BASIC stamp the basic stamp massages the data and puts out MIDI and the midi numbers are then sent through a MIDI interface and used to control the parameters of the software.....
I use other sensors too, like a bend sensor, light sensors and even sonar (though the sonar sometimes gets picked up by the guitar p/ups!)
-k
anyway sorry for the highjack. I posted this here in 2004 and got lots of less than an enthusiastic response as i recall. Admittedly the instrument doesn't work all that great and the clip is awful, but it was just to demonstrate the general concept and was not intended to be public.