Eigenharp Google+ Community Archive

Hi, my name is Joao dos Santos aka astronota. I'm from Porto, Portugal. I have a Pico since 2010. However because of work reasons never got the time to use it properly, until now! This is a great instrument and I'll have some questions as soon as things will get complicated.   Pleasure to meet you all, cheers!

something different... a 'modern' classic :) a bit of fun, playing with different instruments, using pianoteq, u-he bazille and u-he zebra. later controlled by breath. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVLt-55zD64

I'm looking for people that want to do recitals on their instruments locally about once a month. I've recently decided that my amateur status needs a notch up. I've been playing for 48 years and I'm going to start playing more publicly. I want to do guitar concerts, not bars or restaurants. I want to be heard in my small town very close to Raleigh NC. I'm a Java software professional and I'm going to do an AppFuse web application on strong servers as something similar to CraigsList for musicians and listeners to use locally. This app will be hosted on clustered servers and provide free basic accounts to build a community locally and set up recitals, concerts, shows. These performances could be held in someone's home, church, civic league building, anywhere really. The community on the application around the zipcode key could work together to bring about the event. I will try to fund the initial development and hosting for the first year using KickStarter. If...

This is interesting. I'm wondering what changes, or hopefully improvements, Roli's aquisistion of Juce will bring? https://www.roli.com/roli-acquires-juce-the-acclaimed-c-framework-in-bid-to-reshape-human-computer-interaction

Hi, I'm Christophe Duquesne, from France I'm new here, and not (yet?) a Eigenharp owner. But I'm a Haken Continuum player (and also doing sound design for the Eagan Matrix). I'm also an app developper of SpringSound, a physical modeling synth with special features for the Continuum ( https://itunes.apple.com/app/springsound/id866583243 and  http://www.anckorage.com/spring-sound/ ). I have jus installed EingenD with the help from Mark (who has provided support and a dedicated agent). I now have to investigate how all this can work together !  I'm sure bringing clother Continuum and Eigenharp worlds will be fruitful for both and very rewarding. It's a pleasure to meet you all in this group. https://itunes.apple.com/app/springsound/id866583243

Follow up of the photo shoot the other day… What is that ? in the background?

A little bit of Bach? Not posted a video for a while, but have kept practicing. Also, a go at doing something else with video. ... anyway, will be posting another piece very soon, something very different :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGdMaobN5KU

Max 7 Ive been kicking the tyres of Max 7 for the last couple of days...  they really have done a great job of making it much more accessible. new things which make it great in combo with the eigenharp. - Max4Live devices, use M4L audio/instrument/midi devices in Max, means lots of prebuilt stuff to play with. - BEAP, just one click away, easy to build 'virtual modular synths', just add the module and link with CV wires :)   even has monome and launchpad support. - VST/AU drag and drop. - much better performance from the scheduler. Why is this interesting for the Eigenharp? simply because Max is really good at glueing bits together, to form virtual instruments, which can be make use of the expressiveness of the eigenharp in weird and wonderful ways. The trouble I found with Max before, was there were not enough high level components to get your started... you had to jump in right at the bottom, but Max7 seems to have changed that a bit. There was alot of talk about putting the ...

Alpha - headphone ports reversed? Just noticed that the left and right headphone inputs on the alpha agent appear to be the wrong way around. (yes, I tested my headphones and adapters to check i wasn't going mad) Is this the case with other peoples alphas, or perhaps mine was wired up the wrong way around? (confirmed, factory setup 1 is wrong too :)) if all alpha are the same then i can change the code to fix this, but obviously we need to know its a code issue.

iPad connectivity anyone got experience they want to share, with a guy asking for help on  Eigenlabs.com http://www.eigenlabs.com/forum/threads/id/1428 Ive posted some general ideas as he was getting no response, but its not my thing… as I'm not convinced about it personally :) perhaps someone else can help? http://www.eigenlabs.com/forum/threads/id/1428

Poly Midi bug =========== been playing with ppg wavemapper quite a bit lately, and despite a few early issues, its actually really good, and quite low cpu for a voice per channel synth :) however, I've just tripped up on a bug in the poly midi (i think both midi and au agents affected). if you make the agent use poly channel and then create pressure and yaw mappings to a CC,  but 'forget' to change in that mapping from 'global' to 'per note' you will get hung notes (very quickly!) on reflection, I suspect (but not checked yet) its probably pressure = global, midi channel = poly is the issue. note: i tested channel = poly breath = global and that works fine, hence the suspicion that 'pressure' is being dealt with perhaps differently!? ive tested in current 2.1 (from github) and 2.0.74 and exists in both. I confirmed not only by hearing , but also recording all notes in ableton and can see it is eigenD not the plugin. could someone else test, just to c...

Tomorrow Wednesday I have accepted the challenge of a photo shoot, being Eigenharp's the main focus (ehh i'm still shy)  Curious to know the outcome...    After the photo session,  being November 05 i'll be showing (informal meeting with  friends, musicians ) 5 awesome instruments/controllers (as i'm out of the studio into the Theater with big sound,  might as well be with full hands) Usual suspects: Eigenharp Alpha Eigenharp Pico (double) Yamaha Tenori-On Percussa Audiocubes (new, small, ) Haken Continuum Fingerboard