Designer Washiyama Giken created the Key-bowed synthesizer, a custom instrument that’s designed to combined keyboard keying with bowing, to give you expressive ‘string style’ control.
The synthesizer combines a Roland K-25m keyboard and a self-made bowing sensor with a vertical acrylic plate. The sound engine is based on an Arduino Uno R4 Minima processor. Sound is generated by inputting the drive waveform, extracted by a piezo sensor, to a string vibration model.
The demo video features a performance of Carrying You, from the Laputa: Castle in the Sky soundtrack.
Previous examples of bow-controlled synthesis include Pen2Bow, a violin bow MIDI controller for iOS, and the O-Bow Optical Bow Controller.
via Yanko
Finding new insruments is a noble endeavor but this straight up sounds like dogcrap why even publish this article.
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anyway, cool idea, crappy keybed, but neat idea! hope to hear it someday without googles icky fingers in it.