The Modern Open-Source Digital Trumpet: On Designing and Creating an Expressive Digital Musical Instrument*
Presentation Type
Poster Presentation
Mentor/Supervising Professor Name
Ordoñez, Robert
Presentation Location
On Campus
Description
Digital instruments and synthesizers have existed for many years at this point, yet not many are expressive. While software can be tweaked to make their music more expressive, it is difficult to achieve this on a physical device. While physical digital brass instruments exist, those that match the expressiveness we want are very hard to come by and are expensive. We hope to achieve this goal of expressiveness in a cheap digital brass instrument, to not only match what digital software can do, but also match the expressiveness of a brass instrument. Our contribution is a digital trumpet. This paper presents how the instrument works and goes into detail about each step of the process as the instrument is created, as well as its expressiveness, other necessary and potential features, and possible future iterations of the modern digital trumpet.
The Modern Open-Source Digital Trumpet: On Designing and Creating an Expressive Digital Musical Instrument*
On Campus
Digital instruments and synthesizers have existed for many years at this point, yet not many are expressive. While software can be tweaked to make their music more expressive, it is difficult to achieve this on a physical device. While physical digital brass instruments exist, those that match the expressiveness we want are very hard to come by and are expensive. We hope to achieve this goal of expressiveness in a cheap digital brass instrument, to not only match what digital software can do, but also match the expressiveness of a brass instrument. Our contribution is a digital trumpet. This paper presents how the instrument works and goes into detail about each step of the process as the instrument is created, as well as its expressiveness, other necessary and potential features, and possible future iterations of the modern digital trumpet.