Tao User Manual -- The Hammer Device

The Hammer device provides a generalised mechanism for producing percussive sounds. A Hammer device has the following attributes:

mass: - the mass of the hammer.
height: - the initial height from which the hammer is dropped.
position: - the current height of the hammer.
initVelocity: - the initial velocity of the hammer.
velocity: - the current velocity of the hammer.
maxImpacts: - the maximum number of the impacts with the target instrument.
numImpacts: - the number of impacts with the target instrument since the hammer was dropped.
gravity: - gravitational acceleration acting upon the hammer.
damping: - degree of damping applied to the hammer.
hardness: - how hard the impact surface of the hammer is.

All of these parameters may be altered under algorithmic control except the number of impacts which is read only.