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Saturday, November 19, 2011

discover the evo - touch and pressure sensitive keyboard


"Discover the evo. Worlds first keyboard with touch sensitive keys.

With the help of capacitive touch sensors the evo is able to read your fingers movement on top of a keys surface. Next to pitch and velocity there is now a third layer of polyphonic data input.

Think of polyphonic control of pitch and expression. Think of having a pitch or mod wheel integrated into every single key. Think of never ever leaving a key just to turn or push some knobs or buttons.

So, it's a combination of classic keyboard key and modern touch technology. The best of both worlds combined in a single keyboard. But best of all! The characteristical function of a key remains unchanged. The evo still features traditional pressure-sensitive keys. But in addition there are now all the advantages from a touch-sensitive input device in every single key.

So. At first this might sound like the evo is an all new instrument. But it's nothing more than a traditional master-keyboard... With capacitive touch inside every key.

Thank you for watching. Stay tuned!

For more information check out our homepage and feel free to send us an email.

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Update: This is much like the virtual keyboard in Animoog which was based on the John Eaton & Bob Moog Mult-Touch Sensitive Keyboard (MTS) seen in this post. Don Buchla of course used touch based controllers vs. standard keyboards in his early Buchla systems. Being modular, they were freely assignable. Thanks to Pea in the comments for the reminder.

Update via jyoung in the comments: "Looks like its almost ready for sale

New site here...

http://endeavour.de/evo.html"

3 comments:

  1. Cool, but not exactly the first such keyboard. John Eaton & Bob Moog made a prototype along the same lines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0RLaNtshJ4

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  2. Nice. But where the fuck is the wheels and the aftertouch? How could that one "touchstrip" function substitute all encoders on a contemporary standard midi-controller? Silly.

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  3. Looks like its almost ready for sale

    New site here...

    http://endeavour.de/evo.html

    ReplyDelete

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