jason41987
New Member
hey everyone.. im looking to develop an electric blown instrument... im not sure i could really make brass instruments work since a lot of them rely on varying pressure of air.. perhaps if i could create a mouth piece that detected air pressure, perhaps a piezo, or some spring loaded valve..
anyway.. that would be nice.. but id like to focus on the bulk of making this work.. my idea is to use pvc pipe for the body of the instrument.. i would like to use metal pads, like screws that i could simply touch, and my finger touching them would be detected and sounded, if not, a button would work as well...
so, what could i use to detect the location of my fingers?.. are there any kind of touch sensor i can use for this purpose that would be small enough?...
and lastly, i would like to be able to be able to feed the information into a programmable midi controller, or atleast into my computer where i can run a suitable program and program the fingering positions of different instruments to the bottons/sensors...
any idea how to go about this?
anyway.. that would be nice.. but id like to focus on the bulk of making this work.. my idea is to use pvc pipe for the body of the instrument.. i would like to use metal pads, like screws that i could simply touch, and my finger touching them would be detected and sounded, if not, a button would work as well...
so, what could i use to detect the location of my fingers?.. are there any kind of touch sensor i can use for this purpose that would be small enough?...
and lastly, i would like to be able to be able to feed the information into a programmable midi controller, or atleast into my computer where i can run a suitable program and program the fingering positions of different instruments to the bottons/sensors...
any idea how to go about this?