Hey All,
I'm not sure if this is the place to talk about MIDI / circuits but I'll give it a shot. I'm trying to make a MIDI glove - a glove with triggers in the fingertips and palm so that I can make music with them. I've bought a Logitec USB Dual Action Gamepad that works with Junxion, a Mac OS X program that can convert gamepad controls into MIDI signals, so when you press a button on the gamepad, it sends an assignable midi signal.
Now, I'm going to take the buttons out from the gamepad and attach wires to the circuits so that shorting the wires will be the same as pushing the button, and run them into the glove. The question I have is, what switches would be good to work with? I've heard great things about piezo discs being good drum triggers, but those are transducers that generate electricity when bent, and I need a switch. Would there be some way to attach a relay to the piezo disc to get what I want? Or do you know of any switches that are fast acting and thin, similar to the piezo?
Thanks,
Jordan