Here you can find the chimaera open source hardware and software project which is being developed to bridge the physical and virtual world of musical expression.
Over ages, physical musical instruments have been used to create fantastic music full of expressiveness, and those instruments are really good at it, as they are capable to produce the most subtle expressive variations of sound. One reason they can produce such rich sounds is the tight connection of the player with the instrument.
Since decades, electronic instruments and synthesizers are used to produce music, too. However, those instruments seldom lack ways to produce expressive sounds, which disables those instruments to transmit emotions in the first place. One reason for these incapabilities is the loose connection of the musician with the synthesizer.
The way I'd like to change things is by providing an expressive music controller which more tightly connects the player and the synthesizer. I therefore develop an open source music controller that, although it is fully electronic, resembles its analog ancestors in its characteristics of expressiveness and tight connection to the player.
All hardware documentation and design is released under the CERN open hardware 1.1 license
All source code is released under the zlib/libpng license.
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