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Convention Paper

Tactile Music Instrument Recognition for Audio Mixers

Authors: Merchel, Sebastian; Altinsoy, Ercan; Stamm, Maik

AES Convention 128 · Paper 8142 · May 2010

Abstract

The use of touch screens for digital audio workstations, particularly audio mixing consoles, is not very common today. One reason is the ease of use and the intuitive tactile feedback that hardware faders, knobs and buttons provide. Adding tactile feedback to touch screens will largely improve usability. In addition touch screens can reproduce innovative extra tactile information. This paper investigates several design parameters for the generation of tactile feedback. The results indicate that music instruments can be distinguished if tactile feedback is rendered from the audio signal. This helps to improve recognition of an audio signal source that is assigned e.g. to a specific mixing channel. Applying this knowledge, the use of touch screens in audio applications becomes more intuitive.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 128
AES Convention
128
Paper number
8142
Publication date
May 6, 2010
Session subject
Innovative Applications
Affiliation
Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper