A New Music Keyboard featuring Continuous Key-position Sensing and High-speed Communication Options

Publication Type  Conference Paper
Year of Publication  2000
Authors  Freed, Adrian; Avizienis, Rimas
Conference Name  International Computer Music Conference
Pagination  515-516
Publisher  International Computer Music Association
Conference Location  Berlin, Germany
Abstract  We describe a new music keyboard with independent, continuous position sensing capable of communicating gestural nuance available on manual tracker organs, harpsichords and pianos. We explain how the additional functionality can be obtained at a lower cost than existing keyboard controllers and demonstrate a prototype to illustrate this analysis. Our new keyboard uses optical interruption sensing for each key and hybrid space and time multiplexing to achieve the requisite scan rates. Scanned data is assembled into packets using a single FPGA and formatted for a variety of readily available communication methods including embedded in SPDIF and ADAT audio streams and as Ethernet UDP packets.
URL  http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/publications/new_music_keyboard_featuring_continuous_key_position_sensing_and_high_speed_communication_options
Affiliation  CNMAT
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