Overlay Design: Stenotype

Custom Overlay Designs and DIY Projects
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I’ve made a Stenotype layout:

This is for a project I’m working on where I’m adapting Stenotype for musical live coding (https://github.com/jarmitage/stenophone). The layout it based on measurements of an actual mechanical Stenotype machine, the one depicted in the repository above. It’s currently mapped as a Keyboard but I want to experiment with combining keystrokes and gestures via MPE. Then I’m going to make different live coding mappings and 3D geometric layouts.

Here’s a screenshot from the editor:

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And here’s the two side-by-side:

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Here’s the map:
stenotype.senselmap (3.3 KB)

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Thanks so much for sharing @jarm. That’s awesome! What a great application of the Morph

Please keep us posted on how the further developments go. We’d love to see it in action and share with others, if you don’t mind.

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Hi @jarm, wanted to share this with you

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Hi @Mark_from_Sensel, thanks for sharing. I think Ted Morin was also trying this out.

The problem for me is that I need key presses AND continuous MPE data from those zones simultaneously. Is this possible now in the designer tool?

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You want a single control to send out multiple messages, is that right? No this is not currently possible. You would need to handle this in software, converting note data into keyboard letters.

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Thanks for clarifying @peter_sensel.

Is this idea of simultaneous outputs reasonable as a firmware feature request, or would it cause latency / throttling issues (for example)?