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Up until now, keyboardist have been faced with a problem when trying to add effects to their music in real time, they only have two hands; one hand for playing the notes and one hand to control the effect being added. The goal of our project is allow the keyboardist to add effects in real time while keeping both hands on the keyboard's keys. This has been accomplished by making the keys themselves touch sensitive. By doing this we allow control over two effect parameters (e.g. pitch bend, vibrato, timbre ...), on the X and Y axis of the key. At the completion of this project we have a single octave keyboard ready to demo.

Finished Single Octave of Capacitive Touch

Project Name

Piano Touch Keys II

Project Number

13364

Project Family

Piano Touch Keys

Start Term

2012-2

End Term

2012-3

Faculty Guide

Gerald Garavuso, gxgddm@rit.edu

Primary Customer

Gerald Garavuso, gxgddm@rit.edu

Sponsor (financial support)

Gerald Garavuso, gxgddm@rit.edu

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