piggott@bnl.UUCP (Christopher Piggott) (08/13/84)
One of the things that has always fascinated me is a special musical
instrument keyboard designed for an American company and built in Italy.
The keyboard has a special feature to it - it is touch sensitive, outputting
what (when digitized) becomes either a four bit or eight bit number telling
a computer or synthesizer how hard you hit the key. The purpose is that it
can control volume of particular keys, as well as filter changes and gates
to make a very sincere sound.
One of the things that I always liked doing was writing basic
programs on my IMS for this keyboard that would read how hard you hit these
keys, and trying to tell the computer what kind of a mood you were in
based on your light or heavy playing of the keyboard....Wouldn't it be
interesting to apply this to typewriter-style keyboards, to give a computer
an additional sense, and to make the computer more aware that you may type
worse or better based on your heaviness....
Just an idea....Suggestions welcome by mail....