It is not by chance that in popmusic parlance, performers who played the synthesizers were often referred to as keyboard players. Astonishingly, the appearance of the digital synthesizer and the def inition of the MIDI protocol did not change this trend. With very few exceptions, electronic musical synthesizers have been designed since the very early models to be play ed with a piano-like keyboard. Such instruments often consist of a gestural controller driving the musical parameters of a sound synthesizer in real-time. THE COMPUTER MUSIC AND DIGITAL AUDIO SERIESĮduardo Miranda & Marcelo Wanderley With a Foreword by Ross Kirk In New Digital Musical Instr uments Eduardo Reck Miranda and Mar celo Mortensen Wanderley focus on musical instruments that use the computer as the main sound-generating device.

1 Musical Gestures: Acquisition and Mappingģ Sensors and Sensor-to-Computer Interfaces