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I just had an interesting idea, if I was a business person, I probably should patent it first instead of throwing it out to the web, but whatever.
I've noticed that one thing separating even the best weighted controllers from a real piano is that it's doesn't take that much power to reach maximum note velocity and stay there during a performance. But on a real piano, you can always "lay in" and always give it just a little more. I've also noticed that when I play extremely heavily on a controller, my aftertouch (mono pressure) shoots up at the same time. Well... why not analyze the aftertouch increase at the time of a note strike, and use that to trigger notes/samples louder than you would have at normal velocity 127? Ideally, this could be built into the hardware controller itself, and be able to use the aftertouch as a part of the velocity sensor, before the analysis is translated into MIDI velocity data. I believe this would make for even more naturalistic piano performance.
As a poor-man's version, I could set this up in Max/MSP and see if it would work. My only concern is that mono pressure controller output might be a little slow on some units, and wouldn't be fast enough to take an accurate reading before the note should be output, but it's worth a shot.
I've noticed that one thing separating even the best weighted controllers from a real piano is that it's doesn't take that much power to reach maximum note velocity and stay there during a performance. But on a real piano, you can always "lay in" and always give it just a little more. I've also noticed that when I play extremely heavily on a controller, my aftertouch (mono pressure) shoots up at the same time. Well... why not analyze the aftertouch increase at the time of a note strike, and use that to trigger notes/samples louder than you would have at normal velocity 127? Ideally, this could be built into the hardware controller itself, and be able to use the aftertouch as a part of the velocity sensor, before the analysis is translated into MIDI velocity data. I believe this would make for even more naturalistic piano performance.
As a poor-man's version, I could set this up in Max/MSP and see if it would work. My only concern is that mono pressure controller output might be a little slow on some units, and wouldn't be fast enough to take an accurate reading before the note should be output, but it's worth a shot.