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:: More thoughts: For your microtonal chromatic keyboard, I would really like to see [[The Kite Guitar]] layout! It's rectangular not triangular, so a QWERTY keyboard input isn't ideal. Also, I don't have anything with a touchscreen. Wondering if a touchscreen would give some control over the volume? Or is it always a single fixed volume? --[[User:TallKite|TallKite]] ([[User talk:TallKite|talk]]) 08:50, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

The Kite Guitar? Yes, I know such a thing, but not only that one. Do you really want to be so fast? Please, one step at a time. :-)

::: Now, the QWERTY keyboards in real life don't work at all, because most keyboard manufacturers use one trick to cut the costs, so, electrically, a chord is not always can be entered. It should be touchscreen. In principle, I don't have any geometrical limitations. But dynamcs!...

::: I experimented with this a lot. Dynamics, dependency on the "strength" of a touch is a big problem, because it is not signalled in any way. In particular, I tried to explore the fact, that the soft part of the touching finger is deformed by a harder touch, the area of the touch becomes larger with time. It works, but appears totally unrealistic. A person cannot control this finger flattening properly. Worse, the event of the change is only raised then a centroid of a touch is moved, but in practice it doesn't happen roughly in half of cases.

::: But simulation of a string plucking should work! This is because you slide the finder sidewise to the string, and the speed of this slide motion can be used to indicate the volume of the sound.

::: Overall, I would not hope for very realistic rendering of the dynamics.

:: All in all, very impressive, thanks so much for sharing all this with me! Good to see that it is all non-commercial and open source! I look forward to collaborating. --[[User:TallKite|TallKite]] ([[User talk:TallKite|talk]]) 08:54, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

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 :: More thoughts: For your microtonal chromatic keyboard, I would really like to see [[The Kite Guitar]] layout! It's rectangular not triangular, so a QWERTY keyboard input isn't ideal. Also, I don't have anything with a touchscreen. Wondering if a touchscreen would give some control over the volume? Or is it always a single fixed volume? --[[User:TallKite|TallKite]] ([[User talk:TallKite|talk]]) 08:50, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
+The Kite Guitar? Yes, I know such a thing, but not only that one. Do you really want to be so fast? Please, one step at a time. :-)
+::: Now, the QWERTY keyboards in real life don't work at all, because most keyboard manufacturers use one trick to cut the costs, so, electrically, a chord is not always can be entered. It should be touchscreen. In principle, I don't have any geometrical limitations. But dynamcs!...
+::: I experimented with this a lot. Dynamics, dependency on the "strength" of a touch is a big problem, because it is not signalled in any way. In particular, I tried to explore the fact, that the soft part of the touching finger is deformed by a harder touch, the area of the touch becomes larger with time. It works, but appears totally unrealistic. A person cannot control this finger flattening properly. Worse, the event of the change is only raised then a centroid of a touch is moved, but in practice it doesn't happen roughly in half of cases.
+::: But simulation of a string plucking should work! This is because you slide the finder sidewise to the string, and the speed of this slide motion can be used to indicate the volume of the sound.
+::: Overall, I would not hope for very realistic rendering of the dynamics.
 :: All in all, very impressive, thanks so much for sharing all this with me! Good to see that it is all non-commercial and open source! I look forward to collaborating. --[[User:TallKite|TallKite]] ([[User talk:TallKite|talk]]) 08:54, 12 December 2020 (UTC)