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The old physical interfaces aren’t surpassed yet. Physical interfaces have the advantage of sending feedback through touch. Piano keys that push up harder when
by roryokane 13y ago
The old physical interfaces aren’t surpassed yet. Physical interfaces have the advantage of sending feedback through touch. Piano keys that push up harder when you press harder help you notice how hard you’re playing, and keys that depress discretely help you aim your fingers away from the lines between keys so you are less likely to miss.
Of course, the ideal situation is a mix of electronic devices’ flexibility and physical keyboards’ feedback. That could be something like a touch screen that can raise and lower physical bumps on it to feel like keys, or vibrate with different strengths in different places to provide feedback to each finger. But we don’t have that technology yet.
- fhars 13y agoThe other idea is to put more sensors on the physical keys. Turns out, there is a kickstarter for that (just stumbled on it, don't know how legit it is): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/instrumentslab/touchkeys-multi-touch-musical-keyboard http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/instrumentslab/touchkeys...
- roryokane 13y agoWow, I’ve met the creator of that Kickstarter before. I went to a free concert at Temple University where he demoed his “magnetic resonator piano” instrument (http://music.ece.drexel.edu/research/mrp http://music.ece.drexel.edu/research/mrp), which is kind of a more-limited acoustic version of the device in that Kickstarter. From talking to him after the concert and seeing what he’s produced, I don’t doubt that that Kickstarter is legit.