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Awesome project though!
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Yes, there is no analog touch sensitivity on the sax: keys are either open or closed. The pressure sensor is for volume and note attack.
There exist analog keyswitches, have you considered playing with those?
Razer has keyboards with optical ones, and some people have made them by putting inductive sensors underneath mechanical switches, but I couldn't find any analog keyswitches for sale. Do you have some examples?
How can you deal with a large number of analog inputs to a Raspberry Pi or similar?
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As a sax player who also plays a Roland Aerophone, I have a similar question. Is the mouthpiece a real sax mouthpiece and reed? If so, that means it's making a lot of noise. One of the main appeals of windsynths is that I can play at times when the people in my household (and neighborhood) don't really want to listen to it. That said, it's a cool project.
Yeah and is the pressure sensor closed so you're actually not blowing but just increasing and decreasing pressure?
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Yes, there is no analog touch sensitivity on the sax: keys are either open or closed. The pressure sensor is for volume and note attack.
There exist analog keyswitches, have you considered playing with those?
But the full design is published, just in case anyone wants to try :)
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As a sax player who also plays a Roland Aerophone, I have a similar question. Is the mouthpiece a real sax mouthpiece and reed? If so, that means it's making a lot of noise. One of the main appeals of windsynths is that I can play at times when the people in my household (and neighborhood) don't really want to listen to it. That said, it's a cool project.
The sounds are synthed sounds (I used fluidsynth) and the haxophone just uses the sound pressure to infer velocity of the notes. The mouthpiece is optional: you can blow on the neck of the device and will get the exact same sound. But as a sax player, I really prefer to use it with a mouthpiece blowing through it but without making the reed vibrate (so no sound). I find that it helps me maintain proper embouchure and…
Edit: it may be because I’m opening it from the mobile link (which sends the video to Safari), but I tried pulling up the repo directly in Safari, and it shows a whitespace placeholder for the video but that’s it.
You can overcome the RPi scarcity by migrating the code to the Teensy platform, which aside being cheaper and less power hungry than the 2,3,4 RPi, is a lot cheaper and more easily available. Not an easy task since there's no Linux under the hood, but there are some excellent audio/midi libraries to help. They already built commercial-level synthesizers with it. By combining the breath sensor data with other pressure…
Before I’d do any of that would be vibrato. Without it it is a emotionless keyboard with a blowtube.
There are some really cool wind synths out there https://m.youtube.com/@EddieEWI
You can overcome the RPi scarcity by migrating the code to the Teensy platform, which aside being cheaper and less power hungry than the 2,3,4 RPi, is a lot cheaper and more easily available. Not an easy task since there's no Linux under the hood, but there are some excellent audio/midi libraries to help. They already built commercial-level synthesizers with it. By combining the breath sensor data with other pressure…
Before I’d do any of that would be vibrato. Without it it is a emotionless keyboard with a blowtube.
Am open sourced wind synth made with a custom keyboard? Pretty sick IMO