https://www.roli.com/
mikehalloran wrote:Being one-armed, my ability to use most MIDI controllers in real time is extremely limited. The orchestra VIs I have sound more like the Mighty Whurlitzer than anything I can bring to the table. The time does not exist for me to tweak every note and every performance after I play in the notes. Perhaps if I was retired but that's not happening for a few years...ironchef_marc wrote:The key thing with all the current library is to make sure you take advantage of all the expression capabilities of the instruments by using various CC linked to dynamics, vibrato etc.
Anyway, it got me thinking. Does anyone remember the Yamaha combo organs of the 1970s? They introduced a keyboard that could do finger vibrato. It didn't work all that well — you needed a heavy finger to make it work and it was limited but it was functional. Something like that today combined with a volume pedal could make my performances more realistic — not the way that a bowed string or wind controller could but better than its been for me.
Searching the 'net for a MIDI keyboard with finger vibrato brought me to TouchKeys. Looks like I missed the last production run but this may just be what I need. It appears that you can buy it integrated with a controller or you can add it to your own. It can also do glissandi and be programmed for other effects (variable attaca, I would hope).
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~andrewm/tou ... ction.html
I'd love to find one and try it on the Sailors' Dance from "The Red Poppy". If I could make the bass soli sound the way I know how to play it, then I could make such a tool do anything I want.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJgZ-GiPlvM