Eigenharp Google+ Community Archive

So that's what happened to it... http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2015/06/15/camel-audio-alchemy-lives-on-in-garageband/

Woo. More freebie synth engines to play with. http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2014/12/29/free-yamaha-dx-7-patch-editor-virtual-synthesizer/

Question:  All my previous setups have been loosely based on one of the factory alpha/tau setups.   One thing I've noticed with them is that they prevent OSX's screensaver from kicking in.   I kinda thought this was something in EigenD that was causing it, but now that i've been creating my own little setups, i notice that the screensaver is no longer suppressed.    Does anyone (Geert Bevin Mark Harris maybe?) know offhand where this setting exists in the setup?

It's baaack! Got stuck in customs both directions, needing documentation proving that it's duty-free repair/return; but otherwise, all better. Wayne even polished all the silver between the keys. Looks almost new.

The saga of the eBay Alpha continues.    It appears that someone dropped this alpha and it fell onto something rather hard.  Broken wire connection to course 2, and two keys in course 5 with damaged springs (that were still playable, but with reduced range and sensitivity.) Probably some kind of hard edge strike. Crazy.  Don't drop your alpha's, folks. ;-)

International shipping is a pain.   I almost took a vacation to the UK just to take the Alpha with me.   You have to apply for a federal employer ID for tax purposes, otherwise you can't declare the full value of an Alpha.   I also discovered why Eigenlabs ships the instruments basically naked, just cardboard sleeve around the case;  package volume is vastly more expensive than package weight for international.   (I originally put the case in some padding inside a 61-key synth box. DHL wanted $800 one way for it.  HAH no.)

Darn it.. What am I doing wrong here?  midi rig 1 listen midi converter 1 listen midi channel to 2 set .... -> "inappropriate arguments for the verb set" midi rig 1 hey midi converter 1 hey midi channel to 2 set .... -> "inappropriate arguments for the verb set" It says this should work right here:  http://www.eigenlabs.com/wiki/2.0/MIDI_Converter/ but..  changing bank/program works fine, and I see a bunch of script examples out there that use this phrase, but they're all 1.4 based.  did this get broken for 2.0.x?  I'm probably just doing something wrong.  Can someone better at belcanto hit me with the cluebat?   Mark Harris ? http://www.eigenlabs.com/wiki/2.0/MIDI_Converter

Man, it would be so nice if workbench could open two different setups at once so you didn't need two computers next to each other to copy config. :-/

Look what just arrived! Turns out that Dave Kerzner of Sonicreality didn't really need this anymore, so it's found a new home. Pardon me while I go plug in. :-)

Not sure if anyone else saw this, but there's a free AU/VST version of the Oberheim OB-X, OB-Xa, and OB-8. http://obxd.wordpress.com/ http://obxd.wordpress.com

Eigenharp Tau with LeapMotion, Geco, and Serenade III.    I replicated the config demonstrated by Hagai Davidoff, and it works okay.  I did flip the direction of "pressure" from his configuration, though; so now "closer to the body" means "more pressure", instead of less.  I'll probably tweak the config a little to add accent and noise knobs to pitch and roll;  while testing it out, i find that i swirl my hand around for no apparent reason other than it feels right; might as well try to tie that to something so I stop doing that or get some value from it.  Serenade III is kinda tempermental, though.  If the bow CC# ever loses input, it resets itself to the default position, and you get a really nasty fast motion and scrape noise. ;-(    If I knew enough about Reaktor, I could probably fix it and fix it to work like the EigenD cello model, where the key-bow sends a fixed value for the current bow velocity/pressure value.  Serenade requires a CHANGE in t...

Fun toy of the day:  Take NI Razor (as standalone synth), select a vocoder patch. Pick cello rig and midi_towards_NI for your keygroup. Set your audio routing so that eigend's out goes into NI Reaktor/Razor. Lovely bow-able analog synth, with cool impossible harmonics (for sustained chords)

"kay, Dumb Question Friday!    For the EigenD mixer, where in the heck is the wet/dry mix for plugin FX1/2?   I can send/return signal from a plugin, but I also get 100% dry from that channel as well, which limits the utility. I do have a workaround, by going into Workbench and deleting the wires from the rig to the mixer and re-attaching them directly to the plugin FX, and using the plugin's wet/dry mix control, but...  this seems wrong to me.  Have I just been missing the point of MFX all this time?

Odd question of the day:  The "minimum midi decimation" setting, from inside Midi Converter n's routing matrix settings window..... where does that exist inside Workbench?  I'm trying to find it inside the Midi Rig, but ... doesn't look like it's there...  am I just missing it?    I would like to be able to set this via belcanto, as I'm discovering that I need to change this value to avoid stuck notes and other glitches in various levels of midi poly mode on some synth hardware.... it'd be nice to bake this change into my patch preset script....

So, I'm trying to hack up a cello spike for the Tau, since Eigenlabs has said they don't have any more in stock and that they have no intentions of ever making any more.   It appears that the spike would attach to the two little screw slots on the back, at the base.   I'm thinking that I could probably attach some kind of bracket to this with a couple panhead screws with thumbscrews/wingnuts on the other side.   One can get a variety of replacement cello endpins.  These all appear to be, more or less, press-fit into a hole.    I might be able to mill a sort of L shaped flange out of metal strip to hold the two screws and a generic cello endpin.    I think the weight might be managable; that lump of metal that passes for an endpin on the Tau weighs a ton, and seems to be steel.  Anyone done this? anyone have a better idea?

By request of Randy Brown, my Tau harness prototype.   In picture 2, you see that I'm using a 1/2" grommet in the hole of the nylon web portion scavenged from the original tau web strap (which is just a guitar strap attached to this piece.)  It's a rubber grommet because that's what I could find in the shop; but a brass one will work much better.  I have to run out to the hardware store at some point and pick one up.    You can see that it sits properly such that the breath pipe is at mouth level.   It's pretty comfortable; the grumpy look is lack of sleep. ;-)

Hey, do you hate your Tau web strap?  Is having a guitar strap around your neck terribly uncomfortable, and having it around one shoulder insecure? Does it just sit wrong if you wear it like a guitar? Solution: a neotech nylon web alto sax harness and a brass grommet.

Another oddball question: When creating a stage tab, what's the widget for "midi channel N output browse"

(sigh) So I'm trying to work through the talkers stuff from scratch, and I'm failing pretty hard. I'm using the examples at http://myeigenharp.wordpress.com/2013/3/27/a-bit-more-about-talkers/ > and trying to adapt it for what I want, and...      # create a button on the main keygroup     main keygroup hey output 50 create     main keygroup hey keygroup output 50 key row to 1 set     main keygroup hey keygroup output 50 key column to 1 set     talker create     it to song talker name ify     song talker hey " metronome 1 hey toggle start " when 1 called 1 do [?]     # now hook it up???     main keygroup hey keygroup output 50 to song talker connect Now, that doesn't throw an error, but it doesn't work either.  It gives me a button that seems to dump me into an empty keygroup, instead of toggling the metronome. Help? I'm so confused.  [?] While we're here, how do we add actions 2, 3, ... ,n to a key? what does this "when n called n do" ...

Alright, I'm probably trying to do something the utterly wrong way, but here goes: Is there a way to tell eigenbrowser to take an action from belcanto?  I can see how the browser button in the percussion keys operates, and watch it move around the eigenbrowser, and tapping on it makes it do things.  So, if i do "eigenbrowser , interpreter hey script browse" it goes into the scripts menu, and I could move around, but I'd rather have a script drive and do the selection for me (so that I can bake a small 'kicker' into a talker button, instead of having to bake an entire script into a talker button..) I was hoping it would be something like "eigenbrowser , interpreter hey script 2 choose" and so forth, but that errors out..