Eigenharp Clubhouse 19

Recording of the weekly Eigenharp Clubhouse on Google+ Hangouts, January 30, 2012:
http://talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/extras/talk.google.com/eigenharpclubhouse

We’ve talked about:

• Playing the Alpha with a headset, great quality of the headphone amp
• PianoTeq binaural setting, whurly, polyphonic mode, per-note aftertouch
• More than a thousand Eigenharps out there, benchmark passed beginning 2011
• Discussion about the pain of tuning a real Whurlitzer
• Talk about John Nolan’s voice recognition Belcanto agent prototype
• Goes back to the original vision of being able to talk to your instrument
• Prediction of people starting to talk to computers as a general thing (return of the commandline)
• Memory from DevCon, little prank on Duncan using Stage to change his setup while playing
• General talk about the outcome of the first Eigenharp DevCon
• Idea about organizing a player get together (concert/show/festival)
• Eigenharp players are pretty much scattered around the planet
• Not easy to take the step from playing the Eigenharp alone to playing with other people, have to develop new instincts
• Tutorial videos are missing that show people how to play songs, would be a great community contribution
• How to get started with playing actual music pieces on the Eigenharp, huge initial gap to overcome
• Idea of using existing MIDI files to use light on Eigenharp to show which key to press
• Ferdinand’s MIDI Illuminator
• Idea of waiting having the MIDI file wait for the note to be played
• Discussion of the SonicCouture hang drum usage (chromatic)
• Problems of logging onto G+ Hangout
• Mike talking about the Moog Lapsteel
• Geert trying to replace Moog SlimPhatty sound with a plugin, and failed
• Startup time and prepare up front, startup time is really an issue if you don’t plan
• Create a checklist for what to do when you gig
• Back to Eigenharp novelties
• Belcanto and Workbench providing the visibility
• Talk to your Eigenharp during a live performance
• Pitch detection agent and CV calibration only necessary for pitch
• Latency of playing together over the internet (latency problem)
• Real-life latency, sound traveling through the air
• Expert Sleepers ES-3 module rant and DC coupled audio interfaces
• Demo of connecting Eigenharp parameters directly to audio outputs, turning it into CV on

DC coupled interfaces

• Explicit polyphony management for limited resources, needs new agent