Interesting product - FSRs

[Peter Snow]

Here's something else that just came up on the SDIY list:

http://www.phidgetsusa.com/cat/viewsubcategory.asp?category=5000&subcategory=5210

Glue some of those FSR strips to your axe as triggers and you can play drums with your thumb while you pick or strum. Or trigger filter sweeps, or...  endless possibilities for triggering effects.

Other good stuff on that site too, specially if you're into robotics.

Cheers,

Peter

[Mark Hammer]

Howzabout an all-electronic whammy bar?  Set up an arm with a little felt pad that can be pressed down on the FSR when you pull the arm back, and the FSR controls a delay line, making the sample rate shoot up.  For that matter, go craaaaaay-zee and make yourself an electronic Bigsby palm pedal with a hex pickup, a couple of delays, and a couple of those arms.

Stick one in a slobber-proof coating and use it as your bite-controlled distortion knob.

Stick a pair in a rocker pedal and make an FSR-based wah.

Stick one on each side of a wah or other foot pedal and make yourself one of those fancy-pants combo pedals that does one thing when you go front to back and another when you rock side to side.

Make yourself some clever little plungers and position a cluster of them over some FSRs so you can engage in multiparameter control of a pedal by how you roll your foot around, or by how you tap or press your finger tips.

There was a nice article on FSRs in Polyphony IIRC.  I should try and dig it up.  The gist is that you can use FSRs to give after-touch capabilities to keyboard that otherwise lack it.

Loads of fun.

[Peter Snow]

Hi Mark,

Some good suggestions there.  I particularly like this one:

Stick one in a slobber-proof coating and use it as your bite-controlled distortion knob.

Conjures up images of rabid, slobbering, drooling guitarists chewing on these things, trying to get the ultimate distortion

Maybe I could stick one on my...  mmmm... maybe not...

Peter

[Mark Hammer]

If only we could have thought of something to keep Gene Simmons busy a few decades ago, we could have avoided so much social trauma.

Maybe what we need as well is something to install in the shoulder of Nigel Tufnel's shirt so that when he falls over backward while soloing he can still work the controls flat on his back!

[Peter Snow]

 

[Processaurus]

check out the pure tube "p-wah"

http://www.puretube.com/

looks... fun.