Interactive Soundboard
Student Project | Conceptual
The goal behind this project is to create an interactive sound experience.
The project draws upon a synthesizer/sequencer idea, but with a warmer, acoustic instrument sound. You don’t have to know how to play music and can be as active or passive as you want to be. Sounds will be triggered via touch as well as motion.
Similar large-scale sequencers have been developed as a concert novelty, but are built upon an electronic model.
The goal behind this project is to create an interactive sound experience.
The project draws upon a synthesizer/sequencer idea, but with a warmer, acoustic instrument sound. You don’t have to know how to play music and can be as active or passive as you want to be. Sounds will be triggered via touch as well as motion.
Similar large-scale sequencers have been developed as a concert novelty, but are built upon an electronic model.
TOUCH
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The touch sensor is a capacitive touch sensor and can detect a touch through plastic, glass, or paper. It can also be attached to metallic objects to allow for a larger touch pad. The sensor is ratiometric. (The output voltage is a ratio of the supply voltage. For example, if the input voltage is doubled, the output voltage is doubled.)
The sensor is attached to an interface kit which then communicates directly to a computer via a USB cable. |
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MOTION
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The motion sensor is able to monitor changes in infrared radiation which occurs when movement is detected by a person (or object) which is different in temperature from the surrounding area.
This sensor is also ratiometric (the output is directly proportional to the input). |
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SOUND
The output of the analog sensors is a voltage that is converted to a digital value and accessed through the SensorValue properties and events
on the Interface Kit.
Each sensor is programmed, and that code is relayed via USB through a computer to engage pre-recorded acoustic instrument notes. These
notes can be held as long as the sensor remains activated.
Harmony is achieved through having each recorded note be a part of a single musical key. When these notes are combined, they will form
various phrasings within that key. Essentially, this would be a acoustic 16-note polyphonic synthesizer sequencer. (Translation: an electronic
instrument mimicking acoustic sounds where multiple notes can be played at one time and are relayed back in an orderly pattern.)
on the Interface Kit.
Each sensor is programmed, and that code is relayed via USB through a computer to engage pre-recorded acoustic instrument notes. These
notes can be held as long as the sensor remains activated.
Harmony is achieved through having each recorded note be a part of a single musical key. When these notes are combined, they will form
various phrasings within that key. Essentially, this would be a acoustic 16-note polyphonic synthesizer sequencer. (Translation: an electronic
instrument mimicking acoustic sounds where multiple notes can be played at one time and are relayed back in an orderly pattern.)
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Interactive Board |
Board with visual of underlying notes |
