Sensor array midi controller

A Sensor Array with a single left-hand sensorboard, said sensorboard having buttons arranged on its convex top surface, for controlling musical notes, the arrangement of said buttons essentially comprising:

• a. a plurality of chromatic matrices, with
• b. said chromatic matrices each having a plurality of octaves in each row of eighths, and wherein
• c. said left-handed sensorboard has an optimum implementation of intonation, which requires that two conditions be met:
• i. all adjacently placed buttons that control notes related to each other by the interval of the fifth have these notes tuned such that a number between 1.49111 and 1.50554 multiplied times the cycles per second of the note lower in pitch will give the cycles per second of the note higher in pitch, and
• ii. all adjacently placed buttons that control notes related to each other by the interval of the fourth have these notes tuned such that a number between 1.32843 and 1.34128 multiplied times the cycles per second of the note lower in pitch will give the cycles per second of the note higher in pitch.

A Sensor Array with a single right-hand and a single left-hand sensorboard, said sensorboards each having buttons arranged on their convex top surfaces, for controlling musical notes, the arrangement of said buttons on each sensorboard essentially comprising:

• a. a plurality of chromatic matrices, with
• b. said chromatic matrices each having a plurality of octaves in each row of eighths, and wherein
• c. each of said right-hand and left-hand sensorboards has an optimum implementation of intonation, which requires that two conditions be met:
• i. all adjacently placed buttons that control notes related to each other by the interval of the fifth have these notes tuned such that a number between 1.49111 and 1.50554 multiplied times the cycles per second of the note lower in pitch will give the cycles per second of the note higher in pitch, and
• ii. all adjacently placed buttons that control notes related to each other by the interval of the fourth have these notes tuned such that a number between 1.32843 and 1.34128 multiplied times the cycles per second of the note lower in pitch will give the cycles per second of the note higher in pitch.

A Sensor Array with at least one sensorboard, and with

• a. said at least one sensorboard having a total of at least one array of buttons affixed to a rigid surface, with
• b. said at least one array of buttons comprising
• i. at least one chromatic matrix with a plurality of rows of eighths, and with
• ii. said plurality of rows of eighths each having a plurality of octaves, and with said Sensor Array having p1 c. first means to transmit electrical information to and receive electrical information from a plurality of sound-producing devices, and with
• d. said first means enabling said Sensor Array to implement any tunings which are within the capabilities of any of said plurality of sound producing devices.

A Sensor Array with a single sensorboard having buttons affixed to its convex, top surface, for playing musical notes, and with

• a. the arrangement of said buttons essentially comprising
• i. a plurality of chromatic matrices, and with
• ii. each of said plurality of chromatic matrices having a plurality of octaves in each row of eighths, and with said Sensor Array having
• b. first means to transmit electrical information to and receive electrical information from a plurality of MIDI modules, and with
• c. said first means enabling said Sensor Array to implement any tunings which are within the capabilities of said plurality of MIDI modules.

A Sensor Array comprising:

• a. a rigid surface and, affixed to it, at least one chromatic matrix of buttons, each of which buttons is connected to its associated sensor, and all of said buttons forming a playing surface for controlling musical notes and for other, related functions, with
• b. said chromatic matrix being made up of
• i. a plurality of rows of eighths, and with
• ii. each of said row of eighths having at least three buttons, and with
• iii. those particular buttons which control the lowest pitched notes in each of said rows of eights being proximate to one and the same edge of said playing surface, and with
• iv. all adjacent buttons in any and all of said rows of eighths controlling eighth intervals in a uniformly ascending order of pitch, and with
• v. the notes controlled by any two adjacent buttons in said chromatic matrix differing from each other by one of the intervals included in the group consisting of eighth, fifth, and fourth musical intervals, and with
• c. first means to transmit electrical information to and receive electrical information from at least one kind of sound-producing device, and with
• d. said first means enabling said Sensor Array to implement any tunings within the capabilities of any of said at least one kind of sound-producing device,
• Whereby:
• said Sensor Array is enabled to control said at least one kind of sound-producing device so as to produce synthesized music, and is enabled to perform other functions which are related to music and which can be commanded by said at least one kind of sound-producing device.

A Sensor Array comprising:

• a rigid surface and, affixed to it, buttons for controlling musical notes, with said buttons arranged so that three conditions are met in the relative positioning of the buttons within a parallelogram-shaped area on said rigid surface, which conditions are that:
• a. Buttons controlling the notes that differ by successive semitones must progress so as to be located on successive dividing lines between a first set of units of distance which partition the shorter axis of said parallelogram's area;
• and
• b. Buttons controlling the notes that differ by successive steps in the Circle of 5ths must progress so as to be located on successive dividing lines between a second set of units of distance that partition the longer axis of the parallelogram's area;
• and
• c. All buttons must be arranged so that only notes of a single letter designation are placed along any particular dividing line between said first set of units of distance and between said second set of units of distance.