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Step 10Final thoughts
I've enjoyed making the pad and playing about with different sound effects.
Timpani mallets, which are felt headed bamboo sticks, work nicely with the pad if you don't want to use your fingers.
The midimapper program is a bit crude at the moment, and I'm hoping to develop this further to make it easier to use and add some more features.
The position sensing is reasonably good - about 5% accuracy which is enough to make some interesting variations as you play a rhythm.
I would also like to make a few more pads and work out a way to connect more than one to the computer at the same time.
For playing, I have been putting the pad on a flat square piece of soft packing foam to reduce the amount of interference from external vibrations. This might get incorporated into later designs. It would also be nice to tidy up the general look and feel of the pad, by painting it and putting the electronics in a proper box.
I would like to thank Alaric Best for his ideas on the design, which set me off on the track the current pad is based on.
If you make one of these yourself, it would be nice to know how it went - you can get in touch by sending me a private message.
For more information, and any software updates, see:
ganglion.me/synpad/
Good luck!
Timpani mallets, which are felt headed bamboo sticks, work nicely with the pad if you don't want to use your fingers.
The midimapper program is a bit crude at the moment, and I'm hoping to develop this further to make it easier to use and add some more features.
The position sensing is reasonably good - about 5% accuracy which is enough to make some interesting variations as you play a rhythm.
I would also like to make a few more pads and work out a way to connect more than one to the computer at the same time.
For playing, I have been putting the pad on a flat square piece of soft packing foam to reduce the amount of interference from external vibrations. This might get incorporated into later designs. It would also be nice to tidy up the general look and feel of the pad, by painting it and putting the electronics in a proper box.
I would like to thank Alaric Best for his ideas on the design, which set me off on the track the current pad is based on.
If you make one of these yourself, it would be nice to know how it went - you can get in touch by sending me a private message.
For more information, and any software updates, see:
ganglion.me/synpad/
Good luck!
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