Hypertrombone developed for the final project of the Electronic Music and Musical Production course at ESART -
School of Applied Arts of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal, 2010.
The version 1 of the software only used MaxMSP and later I transposed the original sound processors and MIDI controls,
to be used with Ableton Live, allowing for more flexibility. As for the hardware side it as undergone small changes:
changed to battery to 4x1.5V rechargeable batteries allowing bigger performance times, change the original accelerometor
to a 10-DOF sensor.
This project has been used extensively in improvisation contexts since 2011, especially with
Digitópia Collective - Casa da Música (Porto).
Features
Arduino bluetooth.
4 switches programmed as a binary number, acting as scene changes 1 to 16.
MaxMSP acts as middleware, receiving Arduino sensor data and sending out MIDI.
A couple of ad-hoc MaxForLive devices.
10-DOF sensor place on the bell with accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, and altimeter.
Force sensing resistor (FSR) placed on the trigger.
Infra-red and ultrasound sensor placed on the slide.
Optional airflow sensor placed on the secondary valve.
