This video, via miro2424, demonstrates the StrumPad, a MIDI controller designed to let you ‘strum’ your synth like a guitar.
The device is an open source DIY project, based on the Arduino ATMEGA328. It receives MIDI IN messages like note on and note off from a MIDI keyboard controller and loads the data to 6 touch sensors.
When you ‘strum’ the StrumPad, it senses which ‘strings’ have been struck and how much force was exerted, and then sends MIDI OUT messages that can be used to control your MIDI synths.
Details are available at the project site.
stop with all this midi controllers trying to be guitars and guitars trying to be synths and my girlfriend trying to be my wife. enough!
let people create. If you don’t like what they create the STFU and create your own.
thats fine if u want to stand up for the wannabe guitar players and their strummy controllers. Im standing up for the talented guitar players like myself that can actually play. dont be mad 🙂
they terk err jerbs!!
This one is innovative, cool and very interesting. I need one. No… I need two.
12-string must be your thing.
They reinvented the Suzuki Omnichord? Awesome!
Considering that the Omnichord has a bad track record of being a midi controller, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Innovative? Search for Charlie Lab Digitar. A similar gadget from the early 90s. I’ve got one. Used it twice…
I’ll buy your Digitar off you. How much £?
A bit difficult to execute, though. Needs access to a facility to etch a circuit board, and requires soldering. Not for everyone.
one of the things iPads do right
Dang — that reminds me I need to solder up the Le Strum kit that’s been sitting on my shelf for a year. But it’s propping up my Shruthi kit…. http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2013/06/17/le-strum-midi-controller-like-the-love-child-of-an-omnichord-stylophone/
I think his idea is terrific….might give it a go myself.