Vince Pompe van Meerdevoort received his Eigenharp Alpha and recorded a nice unboxing video of it.
He also started a blog where he’s sharing his exploration into the Eigenharp world. Definitely keep on eye on this one: http://eigenharpist.com
Posted in Controllers.
Tagged with Eigenharp, Unboxing.
By Geert Bevin
– June 6, 2012
My band Marvin got the third prize in a regional Belgian music contest. The local television, ACTV, was intrigued by the Eigenharp and aired this little interview … in French though …
Posted in Controllers.
Tagged with Eigenharp, Interview, Television.
By Geert Bevin
– May 24, 2012
Mike Milton adopted the Eigenharp immediately when the instrument first came out two years ago. He followed its evolution closely as a musician. The new Workbench tool of EigenD 2 provides unprecedented visual access to the Eigenharp’s configuration. This book gives a great overview of what’s possible and how the inner workings of the Eigenharp and its software EigenD can be useful for making music.
This is not a how-to, it’s written for people who are interested and want to know more about how the Eigenharp works, what is can do, and how the software is structured.
This book is written for the iPad and fully leverages the multi-media capabilities of iBooks 2, including a very informative video by the Eigenharp’s creator John Lambert about the innovative design of the playing keys.
The book can be freely downloaded from iTunes.
Posted in Controllers, Software, Tutorial.
Tagged with eBook, Instrument, iPad, Overview, Workbench.
By Geert Bevin
– May 24, 2012
Recording of the weekly Eigenharp Clubhouse on Google+ Hangouts, May 21, 2012
We talked about:
- Soft threshold where it iS? Alpha keyboard 1
- Agent Alpha keyboard 1 only shows with the instrument turned on
- Wiring a foot switch to a talker
- Hangouts on Air
- Organized list of things that people like to see
- Geert frustrated…
- importance of a flash light on stage
- Mike Summer course, and what instrument to play?
- Halliburton
- EigenChorder release
- Mike “watching the sky”
- Fingerer Agent
- switch of Column to rows and rows to Column
- Alpha setup like an Button Accordion
- Button Accordion with Fingerer to Hangouts on Air
- Midi out port browse
- Free Midi Monitor – http://www.snoize.com/MIDIMonitor/
- Firewire isolator
- Wallwarts
- Hangout on Air
- Alpha setup like an Button Accordion
- Big jumps on the keys
- Latch keys
- insides on the data transferred between agents
- Data monitoring
- Larry wallwarts
- Belkin Surge Protector BE112230
- 19′ Rack Power Conditioner
- About the Drummer
- “for now” Don’t rename the slots
- Multiple loops in a single slot and toggle thru them
Posted in Tip.
Tagged with Clubhouse, Demonstration, Eigenharp, Tip.
By Geert Bevin
– May 22, 2012
Recording of the weekly Eigenharp Clubhouse on Google+ Hangouts, May 7, 2012
Posted in Tip.
Tagged with Clubhouse, Demonstration, Eigenharp, Tip.
By Geert Bevin
– May 8, 2012
BangStrokeBlow is back with a video of their song Dong People.
Aki joined the band, playing live drums together with the two Eigenharpers.
Additionally, Subba-Cultcha interviewed the band ahead of BangStrokeBlow’s performance this month in Club Kamikaze on the 25th of May.
The interview can be read in full on the Subba-Cultcha website.
Posted in Controllers, Live, Song.
Tagged with BangStrokeBlow, Eigenharp, Interview, Live, Original, Performance, Video.
By Geert Bevin
– May 5, 2012
Joel plays the intro of Einaudi – I Giorni on his Eigenharp Tau just one day after he got his. Amazing! Really looking forward to see where he’ll be taking the Eigenharp!
Posted in Controllers, Live.
Tagged with Cover song, Live, Tau.
By Geert Bevin
– April 18, 2012
Recording of the weekly Eigenharp Clubhouse on Google+ Hangouts, April 16, 2012
We’ve talked about:
- general chatting, not much Eigenharp related
- new iPad geek out
- EigenD Stage on the new iPad is amazing
- device-specific tab in Stage
- EigenD 2 stabilizing very quickly, new setups planned
- multi-tasking as a person
- Joel joins, rented a Tau and went to meet John and Wayne at the farm
- Joel introduces himself
- talk about note layouts
- Joel talks about how he discovered the Eigenharp and traveling
- computer hardware geek out time
- tip about adopting the Eigenharp as-is and learn what it does, without adapting
- apparent complexity of Workbench
- short demo of building a setup from scratch with Workbench
- how to approach the Eigenharp as a newcomer
- we need more user Eigenharp videos on YouTube!!!
- John Cleese video about creativity http://youtu.be/VShmtsLhkQg
- quiet clubhouse episode, other one on Wednesday that’s not recorded
- Joel’s plan of action
Posted in Tip.
Tagged with Clubhouse, Demonstration, Eigenharp, Tip.
By Geert Bevin
– April 17, 2012
Spy Vs. Spy – Hman
Performed on the Eigenharp Alpha
Posted in Controllers, Live, Song.
Tagged with Cover song, Eigenharp, Live, Performance.
By Geert Bevin
– April 17, 2012
Yesterday, I finished the setup of my Eigenharp with microphone, together with an additional dynamic microphone for Nathalie with in-ear monitoring for both. I’m feeding back Nathalie’s voice back into EigenD so that I can hear her and vice-versa.
I was afraid of latency, but it turned out great and the virtual channels of my Metric Halo ULN-2 once again proved invaluable.
It looks like we’re technically set for our first duo Eigenharp gig next Saturday.
It seemed to me that it would be interesting to draw out the whole routing and connection diagram, with all the gear I use. Even though this is quite specific to the capabilities of my Metric Halo audio interface’s virtual channels, I think it might help some people to understand what the possibilities are and how much functionality is gotten out of just a few pieces of gear.
On stage, this presents itself very cleanly with just me with my Eigenharp and Nathalie with a microphone.
If you want more information about this setup or about specific parts of it, let me know. I might be persuaded to record a walkthrough video with commentary about the parts that seem to interest people.
Here’s the list of all the gear I’m using:
- Eigenharp Alpha + leather strap
- Eigenharp Basestation Pro
- Eigenharp instrument cable 24m
- K&M Eigenharp stand
- DPA 4080 microphone
- Etymotic Research ER-4p earphones
- Yamaha FC-3 sustain pedal
- Moog Slim Phatty
- MacBook Pro
- Heil PR-20 microphone
- Microphone stand
- Shure PSM-200 wireless monitor
- Metric Halo ULN-2 audio interface
- Firewire and USB cables
- Microphone cable
- Power cables
- Various audio cables and connectors
- Collection of spare cables
Posted in Controllers, Setup, Software.
Tagged with Custom setup, Eigenharp, In-ear monitoring, Live, Metric Halo, Microphone.
By Geert Bevin
– April 11, 2012
