Development and Evaluation of an Interface with Four-Finger Pitch Selection

von Coler H, Treindl G, Egermann H, Weinzierl S. Development and Evaluation of an Interface with Four-Finger Pitch Selection. In: AES Convention 142. Audio Engineering Society; 2017. Paper 9792. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=18666

@inproceedings{vonColer2017_18666,
  author = {von Coler, Henrik and Treindl, Gabriel and Egermann, Hauke and Weinzierl, Stefan},
  title = {{Development and Evaluation of an Interface with Four-Finger Pitch Selection}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 142},
  note = {Paper 9792},
  year = {2017},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=18666}
}

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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
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AB  - This paper presents the development and evaluation of an interface for electronic musical instruments, designed for controlling monophonic synthesizers. The hand-held device allows the pitch selection with one hand, using four valve-like metal mechanics and three octave switches. Note events are triggered with a wooden excitation pad, operated with the second hand. The sensors are equipped with an advanced aftertouch, which enables expressive playing. In a user experiment, the controller is compared to a MIDI keyboard, regarding the reaction time and error rate in simple tasks. Results show no significant difference in the response time but a higher error rate for the novel interface. Outcome of this work is a list of necessary improvements and a plan for further experiments.
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