I wanted to show you the instrument that I designed to the music that I create.
My music is called Beat Jazz, and this is my Beat Jazz control.
It's a three-way wireless network built on open source software, running an open source
operating system, and I use it to create a style that's completely improvised using nothing
but synthesizers and these.
I needed a controller that allowed me to improvise in multiple dimensions, so I created a controller
that's based on saxophone fingerings but has accelerometers that allow me to control multiple
different effects and parameters at once using different key commands.
So I'm able to create everything live and have it to be sound like a DJ set.
So those are four sensing resistors, so they measure how hard I press so I use them as keys.
All right, and what's on the back side?
The joystick here is to control part looper, part effects.
Here is for octaves, and the top one is multi-function, it controls my volume, it controls looper position
and most types of things.
Each unit has its own radio that communicates with its own radio at my computer, so I don't
have any bottlenecks in data speed.
How did you control this thing I saw, you used your iPhone?
I created this as a feedback so that I could see what's going on in my system.
It's based on saxophone fingerings, but it also uses pressure-sensitive keys that allow
me to control parameters depending on how hard I press the keys, so I have them set to
change patches, change effects, things like that, and I have joysticks that take most of
the rest of the controls, things like sustain and tap selection and filters and octaves and all of those things.
Wow.
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