Recording of the weekly Eigenharp Clubhouse on Google+ Hangouts, February 13, 2012
We’ve talked about:
- Jeff’s going for both an Alpha and a Pico
- how are virtual instruments created, modeled versus sampled
- constraints are different for modeled and sampled, CPU versus memory/bandwidth
- EigenD being open source, agents can be developed independently, DevCon
- leverage the existing papers and alogryhtms and implement them as EigenD agents
- agents can be anything
- programming knowledge needed is Python, C++ fairly straightforward with cfilter example
- different layers of programming
- assembling existing agents into creative synthesizers
- share, import and export rigs (group of agents)
- parallel with MaxMSP patches and externals
- place for sharing the agents, rigs, …
- planetarium show: “Music of the spheres”, Mike Oldfield music, laser show, lacked Eigenharps
- lots of empty planetariums, go out of business, lack of interest, interesting venue to grab
- Google performing arts day in June
- connectivity problems
- log buildings and Eigenharps đ
- do AU/VST instruments play as nicely as the natively built instruments in EigenD
- EigenD routing matrix, host automation parameters, MIDI CC
- last week’s problem with Omnisphere related to installation problem
- balance between power, flexibility and convenience: hardware synths versus software synths
- Spicy Guitar free guitar modeling plugin
- VST and AUs are merely a de-facto standard, no formal specification that’s good enough
- plugin problems are usually stupid, EigenD ironed out a lot of incompatibility problems now
- no central rig sharing place on the website yet
- EigenD 2 still in experimental phase
- how many Eigenharp Alpha’s are out there in the world
- article in the Atlanta Chronicle about new musical instruments adoption in history
- Google performing arts day follow up
- programming needs continuous practice or you start losing it, goes much quicker than you expect
- http://wikifonia.org : sheet music sharing site with external contributions (transposable)
- great tip, transpose music to C and then transpose back on the Eigenharp, very easy to play
- forums discussion about notation, use cases for notation are being mixed
- you have to really try out notation, both reading and writing to know how suitable they are
- try to use existing software for the notation, Musescore, Sibelius
- WikiFonia uses MusicXML, that could maybe be integrated into an agent
- MusicXML initial experience from Dragica
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