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TZubiriyesterday at 11:03 PM0 repliesview on HN

Nice.

If I may ask for your advice on a related subject.

I have an old electric piano, it doesn't register dynamics, the strength with which I hit each note. Which is a huge bummer.

I can't think of a simple way to hack dynamics onto the keyboard, I thought of adding an additional sensor and using the time delta between touching a key and hitting the bottom, but that's not really correct, as you can hit a pianissimo key fast in staccato.

Maybe a basic spring that decreases resistance as it becomes compressed, but it might make keys quite hard, and it's not very simple to implement.

Any ideas?

Thank you.