Documentation

MIDI GLOVE

Interaction with music is something that has driven me to do a variety of projects over the past few years with this being the most recent and involved project to date.

The idea behind my MIDI Glove is to be able to compose, control, and manipulate music just using the dexterous properties of your hands.

The glove is meant to act as a midi controller for any DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) to record melodies, loops, etc. to create music in a non-conventional, more interactive way.

The Glove is composed of many different sensors, each with a different purpose and completely customizable. Each sensor can trigger different parameters within the program to allow the user to control the music in whatever fashion fits their style best.

The glove itself is composed of 9 sensors and 2 buttons. There is a pressure sensor on each of the five fingers and there is a flex sensor on the back of each finger excluding the thumb.

The 5 pressure sensors are FSRs (Force Sensitive Resistors) that register different resistances based on the pressure on the sensor. This allows for velocity sensitive control meaning the harder the sensor is pressed, the louder the volume value will be sent in the MIDI signal.

On the back of 4 fingers there are bend resistors that change resistance the further they are bent. These are used to change variable values within the program such as frequency control, volume control, effect presence within a sound, etc.

The glove allows for many different combinations of controls and movement to expressively interact with the music.

Below you can see pictures of the current build stage of the glove.

Ableton (DAW)