j4cobgarby
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I'm planning on making some sort of synthesizer. Are there any buttons with a low activation force, and whose resistance varies based on how far down they're pressed?
I'm planning on making some sort of synthesizer. Are there any buttons with a low activation force, and whose resistance varies based on how far down they're pressed?
Well, of course there are! But here in the 21st Century you might have to custom manufacture your own. There was a (now expired) Kickstarter campaign to produce such buttons, but I can find no evidence that manufacturing actually occurred, beyond the delivery of a few prototypes to supporters of the campaign.I'm planning on making some sort of synthesizer. Are there any buttons with a low activation force, and whose resistance varies based on how far down they're pressed?
I did this late in the previous century, but I am no musician. The setup worked, but I was incapable to producing anything that sounded like music, at least to wife's ears (and maybe my children's ears too, but its hard to tell with teenagers). Your mileage (or kilometers) may vary.
I LOVE vacuum tubes... my entire electronics career began (and ended) working with vacuum tubes. As for "honest organic noise," its really hard to beat the reality of quantum effects, such as the random arrival of electrons traversing "empty space" between electrodes in a vacuum. But what the heck is a "trainwreck clone?"Now that you mention it. I did build a guitar MIDI interface from an issue of EPE .....
It worked, but ultimately I broke down and went to vac tubes and built a trainwreck clone.
Nothing beats honest organic noise boys
If you're not playing a tube fired guitar amp, you're not playing guitarI LOVE vacuum tubes... my entire electronics career began (and ended) working with vacuum tubes. As for "honest organic noise," its really hard to beat the reality of quantum effects, such as the random arrival of electrons traversing "empty space" between electrodes in a vacuum. But what the heck is a "trainwreck clone?"
"Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke (b.16 December 1917 – d. 19 March 2008). Some folks who are into magic will say the converse is also true: "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from science," but let's not go there in this forum, lest we wind up in the Twilight Zone.it's the closest thing to magic my rational mind will accept
That section has been my comic book section for a while."Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke (b.16 December 1917 – d. 19 March 2008). Some folks who are into magic will say the converse is also true: "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from science," but let's not go there in this forum, lest we wind up in the Twilight Zone.