flexpression

A hand-controlled musical user interface device

3-sensor Arduino project

The Flexpression controller uses 3 flex sensors mounted to a user’s fingers to control a number of parameters in a MaxMSP instrument or in Ableton Live.

Integrated with MaxMSP

Parameters can be adjusted for whatever purpose in MaxMSP, but for purposes of demonstration the following mappings were used:
Index finger - Filter Frequency

Middle Finger - Additive synthesis & delay mix

Thumb - Frequency modulation amount