From Mike Beauchamp Sent Sat, Mar 23rd 2019, 05:10
From Mike Beauchamp Sent Sat, Mar 23rd 2019, 05:10
> I recall decades ago a friend telling me about a force-response > joystick he saw. It wouldn't move, but it would output a voltage > proportional to how much force you gave it. This was designed for > military use, and there was a demo to use the joystick to track > something on a screen, and also had a traditional joystick to use for > comparison. My friend said it was much easier to track with the > force-response joystick. I've wondered how well that would work for a > synth controller. That reminds me of the IBM "Pointing Stick" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick ) Mike