My Eigenharp Alpha Hang Drum setup script

Last night I posted my first improvisation video with the my Eigenharp Alpha Hang Drum setup, so I thought it would be time to post the Belcanto to create it also.

You can download the script from here:
Eigenharp Alpha – Hang Drum script

Make sure you use at least EigenD 1.4.8, I updated some of the Belcanto with newer constructs which will only work with the latest release.

It’s important to read the instructions in the script, here’s a copy of those:

This script creates the split, the keygroups and the lights, scroll down to the bottom of the script to read more about how to set up the scales and the audio units.

The new split will appear next to the first arranger key and can be selected with the main mode key.

Kgroup 22 is supposed to use Kontakt with Hang Drum Mk1 and its ‘Octaves’ mapping

Kgroup 23 is supposed to use Kontakt with Hang Drum Mk2 and its ‘Octaves’ mapping

These are the scales for both hang drums:

[Hang 1]
intervals=0 12 2 14 4 16 6 18 8 20 22
24 36 26 38 28 40 30 42 32 44 46
48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58
25 37 27 39 29 41 31 43 33 45 46
1 13 3 15 5 17 7 19 9 21 22
[Hang 2]
intervals=0 12 2 14 4 16 6 18 8 20
24 36 26 38 28 40 30 42 32 44
48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57
25 37 27 39 29 41 31 43 33 45
1 13 3 15 5 17 7 19 9 21


The names of the scales are dependent on how EigenD names your user scales, look in the scales browser. Kgroup 22 uses the Hang 1 scale and kgroup 23 uses the Hang 2 scale.

kgroup 22 hey scale to user 1 set
kgroup 23 hey scale to user 2 set


Each time select Native Instruments Kontakt and load the appropriate Hang Drum from SonicCouture and set the ‘Octaves’ mapping layout in the performance section.

You might have to touch the playing keys while the samples are loading to wake up the Audio Unit.

I did fine-tune my versions of the Hang Drum instruments a bit in the Kontakt instrument edit mode. For convenience, I included them as .nki files which you can try to see if those changes feel right for right.

eigenbrowser hey audio unit rig 6 audio unit plugin browse
eigenbrowser hey audio unit rig 7 audio unit plugin browse