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Post by alexjplant »

bluGill wrote: post #27

I've been trying to design a keyboard that can be used with the feet - something that I can play like dance dance revolution, while playing something else with my hands (mandolin), thus making me a one man band. Figuring out what a good layout would be is the first step and so far everything I've thought of either lacks useful notes, is too big to reach useful notes, or the keys are too close together. If anyone has…

Keith McMillen Instruments makes a one-octave foot controller that can send note data [1]. It was the most compact and affordable MIDI foot controller of this type that I was able to find when I looked a few years back.

[1] https://www.keithmcmillen.com/products/12-step/

Re: Terpstra Keyboard

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Post by ldb »

_joel wrote: post #19

This would be great for Klingon Opera :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LjcBv-OWtQ

Wow, not in my wildest dreams would I have thought that such a deep dive into Klingon music theory exists. This is amazing. Thanks for sharing.

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bluGill wrote: post #27

I've been trying to design a keyboard that can be used with the feet - something that I can play like dance dance revolution, while playing something else with my hands (mandolin), thus making me a one man band. Figuring out what a good layout would be is the first step and so far everything I've thought of either lacks useful notes, is too big to reach useful notes, or the keys are too close together. If anyone has…

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Post by htek »

beefman wrote: post #44

Now the Lumatone https://www.lumatone.io/ Mike Battaglia plays Scarborough Fair in 31-tone equal temperament https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJKB1_gvhLE

I wish I had bought a few Axis-49 controllers when they were in production. They were a much more reasonable $500 at the time.

https://www.c-thru-music.com/cgi/?page=prod_axis-49

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Post by pugworthy »

Amusing things to do...

  * Type things and listen to the various tones.  I'd go for a little app that just let me do this day to day.  I'd probably find it annoying pretty quickly but it would be interesting turned down low.

  * Use your browser's zoom to go way out.  It has no problems offering you notes way beyond the ability of you to hear it let alone your computer from playing it.

Re: Terpstra Keyboard

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Post by yusina »

cwbrandsma wrote: post #28
jeroenhd wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair to an English speaker reading your name from paper: some native English speakers are taught to read by recognizing words by their first letter and their shape, and skipping the word to later fill in the blanks when they don't recognize the word. The lady may have simply never been taught how to sound out unfamiliar letter combinations, and may have been trying her best to make sense of the unrecognizable m…

She wasn't even reading it, I was telling her my name, all she had to do was repeat it and she couldn't do it.

I challenge you to go to China and ask people to make fun of you if you are unable to correctly pronounce half their words. Not because of stupidity but because of a mix of not hearing the subtle difference ("but that's exactly what you said!") and being unable to accurately reproduce a sound that you hear.

As kids, we have the ability to make lots of noises. Kids learning languages keep those skills alive. Over time, we lose that ability for sounds that we don't use regularly, and re-acquiring that capability is really hard.

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Post by vunderba »

bluGill wrote: post #49
vunderba wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've messed with using a 9-button dance pad as an impromptu midi controller - gives you a full octave and you use the center square as a "rest", but I can't imagine trying to use it in a live setting - it would be like trying to play a guitar in a bouncy castle.

That idea was my inspiration. However I want more than 9 notes. In particular I want major, minor, and 7th chords based as well as the root note.

Yeah totally get it. You'd almost need a "mod" key or a wireless controller to turn on a chord mode similar to how arranger keyboards work...
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