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Hi
i've read the paper for your 8 x 8 control surface. i haven't read the Max implementation yet, but before i do, i was wondering a couple of pretty basic things 'theory of operation-type things. i am a bit of a noob on the dsp front and lots of other fronts too, but here goes ...
I have got to the point where I have a set of 8 ffts for the antenna sample sets I have taken. I can see magnitude real data and imaginary phase data ... I can discard a lot of the bins as empty. and I end up with a 64 sample data set , having statred with 32 point ffts x 8 ...sample rate 1/32 of original.
What next? how do I extract velocity information from this set? i suppose that there will be discontinuities in the phase information due to the decrease in distance between transmitter and antenna, and spotting them gives you position, but how do you pick up on velocity? Does the magnitude of the wave change in a noticeable way over such a short distance?
Also why do you upsample / filter the data set? is that to get a better look at 'points of interest' .... but what are they?
Edit: I re-read, and I guess you are using real magnitude, based on inverse squared....? I never thought about that working on a 'micro' level..
Assuming I got that right, what is the b-spline filter for? can't you just access the magnitude data directly in C++?
Final edit: so, is the b-spline filter for feeding the magnitude data into waveguide synthesis?? I could just access the magnitude date for "MIDIFYING" purposes myself without waveguide synthesis ... that said, I am interested in how the filtering gives you a signal to be fed into the synthesis engine, and how that synthesis engine works .... fascinating (if true).
Thankyou for your help!
sorry for the noob questions
... the transmitter sine waves .... I take it you need to have a fair bit of power in them ...so 15 volts p-p? I suppose the distance between transmitter and pickup matters?
Also in the layout of the transmitter and the pickup, what is the optimal distance between strips to stop cross-talk.. I understand there is no ground plane around the pickups in your current design ...have you moved the pickups closer together or maintained separation.
And when you talk about the derivative of the magnitude to give velocity, could you not use 'absolute' magnitude on the basis that less distance means more force? Or is the design less for striking and more more for touching (in which case velocity is not so relevant anyway??? Perhaps we are talking at cross purposes ...true velocity vs MIDI velocity.
anyway, thankyou for all your work. And I see you have a patent!! Wow. so cool. thankyou for taking the time to help diy ers like myself.