Inventors:
Alan R. Pearlman - Newton Highlands MA
Dennis P. Colin - Beverly MA
Assignee:
ARP Instruments, Inc. - Lexington MA
International Classification:
G10H 102
G10H 502
Abstract:
A touch sensitive device is associated with at least one key of an electronic musical instrument such as an electronic organ, includes a layer of a pressure responsive, variable conductance material, and exhibits a switching action when subjected to pressure beyond a threshold pressure, any increase in pressure thereafter providing an increase in conductance up to a saturation pressure. The device may be used either as a combined switch and amplitude control or may be used in associated with one or more capacitors to provide either a high pass or low pass touch-control audio filter. In a totally polyphonic instrument a tone generator and touch-control filter are respectively associated with and responsive to each key depression, the output signal from each activated filter being coupled preferably to audio mixer circuitry.