Ribbon Controller tune
A ribbon controller or other violin-like user interface may be used to control synthesizer parameters. The ribbon controller has no moving parts. Instead, a finger pressed down and moved along it creates an electrical contact at some point along a pair of thin, flexible longitudinal strips whose electric potential varies from one end to the other. Older fingerboards used a long wire pressed to a resistive plate. A ribbon controller is similar to a touchpad, but a ribbon controller only registers linear motion. Although it may be used to operate any parameter that is affected by control voltages, a ribbon controller is most commonly associated with pitch bending.
In this video:
Soft Rime(樹氷)
Composed by Yuichi Onoue
All instruments are performed by Yuichi Onoue(尾上祐一)
In this video, Onoue mainly plays the handmade ribbon controller. It can change a oscillator pitch smoothly, depending on the place which you press down. It was originally made as a kind of MOOG SYNTHESIZER’s controller in late 60’s. I made this following its example. And playing style is self-taught.
more about Ribbon Controller.
http://torigoya.main.jp/RibbonController_en.html
more Ribbon Controller Videos,please watch
http://bit.ly/aTu0b2
Onoue also plays two strings original electric instuments called Kaisatsuko on backing track.
See here for detail about Kaisatsuko.
http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om20000.html
More Kaisatsuko Video
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C6231E127310C9AB
Soft Rime Photos by 写真素材 四季
http://sozai-photo.com/hikosan/hikosan.html
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