This is an example of an effective technique for using the continuous data from the sensors on the Snyderphonics Manta. While it's possible to get useful data from the sensors when conceiving of them as a sort of psuedo-pressure sensor, they are actually sensing the total surface area covered by...
Here's an example of using the continuous controller messages from the Manta to route the touch sensitivity of the sensors to a MIDI instrument. In this example, a Hammond organ style softsynth is used, and the volume is controlled by the value of highest sensor output.
Jeff Snyder shows off a sequencer patch on the Snyderphonics Manta. All sounds are being controlled from the manta -- used as a three voice 16-step sequencer in this case. The voices are a sawtooth oscillator (the bottom two rows), a synthetic bass drum (the middle two rows), and a synthetic...