Eigenharp Google+ Community Archive

Anyone willing to help me setup a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone Black for use with the Pico? Would probably not need much assistance but a few key things remain confusing to me. Alternatively, would like spend a bit of money to get a prepared SD card. Kai Drange? Mark Harris? Yes, it’s understood that some things aren’t fully baked, yet. Don’t want to be impatient. Perfectly willing to try stuff and, despite appearances, been able to get some fairly involved things to work. But, for some reason, my attempts at getting EigenD or MEC to work on Raspbian have failed. Been having a lot of fun with my Blokas pisound, especially with MODEP (MOD Emulation for pisound). It’s like a virtual pedal which accepts LV2 plugins, including synths and MIDI effects. Just the thing for my wind controller setup. Been using it extensively with my Yamaha WX-11 and been dreaming of using it with my Pico. The Bela-enhanced BeagleBone Black would be another option. Thanks a lot for any help!

Hi all - the O ring has worn out on my Pico. Minimum order from the website is £19.60, but I only paid £100 for the instrument, so just wondering if anyone here has a couple spare for a tenner?

Open Source Modular Synthesizer. Four words that sound awesome in the same sentence :) Will have to play around with that... https://vcvrack.com/ https://vcvrack.com/

I've just been experimenting with Fingerer, which is brilliant, and recreated a Pico version of the fingering I use on the Akai EWI. It's given me access to over three continuous chromatic octaves pretty quickly, so I'm quite pleased with that. (Here's a quick demo. I've added the fingering file under the EVI thread on the forum.) Works fine with the clarinet, but when I tried editing the VST in the same way it didn't work at all. Would you expect it to ...? I'm new to this so I'm a bit confused how it's all set up...eg when using the clarinet I see stuff like breath compression in Stage, but the settings under the VST tab are completely different, and it's not there...? http://www.lemontiger.co.uk/audio/PicoDemo.mp3

This seems to be a nice community, so I think it just fair to introduce myself since I'm going to hang around from time to time. I'm living in Mora, Sweden and it would be nice to get in contact with other eigenharpists in the Nordics. I started out during the early seventies on a Burns London 1965 electric guitar and I'm still playing. Mostly I play a customized Fender Stratocaster. I've been mostly a bedroom player although I've played in a couple of bands throughout the years. Early 2017 I was looking for some new ways to express myself musically, since I wanted to play in a more ambient style. My pedalboard and guitars gave some possibilities, especially with the use of my Eventide pedals. But it wasn't enough. I wanted to do music more like Brian Eno, Harold Budd and Jon Hassel. So I started to look for some new stuff. Since my then ten year old son learning to play keyboard, and I wanted him to keep the keyes to himself and not feel he had to compete with...

Does anybody know if there are any other Eigenharp Alpha player in Sweden but me? If I'm alone there isn't much point in running the blog "ambient music on string and eigenharp" in Swedish. http://www.eigenharp.se

Hi all - I recently picked up a secondhand Pico and I'm looking for portable solutions. I'm hoping I can use it with a 2GB Windows 8 Linx tablet via its micro-USB, but I'm thinking I might need to supplement the power, perhaps with a Y-cable and a USB power pack. Has anyone got a Pico running on a small Windows tablet...? Seems like a natural fit, but I've seen no mention of it...