Recording of the weekly Eigenharp Clubhouse on Google+ Hangouts, April 3, 2012
We’ve talked about:
- working out and sports is good for your health
- Mike posted some nice screenshots of Workbench on G+ with explanations
- AudioFanzine.com Eigenharp reviews from John and Mike, send in your reviews!
- G+ hangout improvements, apps, invites, …
- Mike likes Eigenharp green lights for the scale roots
- back to G+ apps
- freeform AU/VST audio loopers in your EigenD setup
- Geert demos how to setup and use of Guitar Rig for this
- Guitar Rig is a very useful general purpose FX and tool plugin
- Guitar Rig tapedecks at input/output pre and post, useful for recording, mixing in audio
- how to transcribe music, Coda is very useful, also looking at a video
- no ‘open strings’ on the Eigenharp at the moment, not even with Strummer
- Strummer design explanation
- maybe use Fingerer for open strings?
- setup compatibility between experimental EigenD releases
- EigenD 2.0.38+ bug deletes older experimental apps, shouldn’t do that
- Sudesh’s interest in new instruments
- mentions A.R. Rahman (http://arrahman.com)
- Jordan Rudess being mentioned also
- practise makes you play in tuned, configurable pitch bend curves
- different pitch bend ranges for different pieces of music
- Randy Brown’s upcoming tutorial about how to create his music
- making tutorials is a lot of work
- feeding information to people that are gravitation around us, interesting in the Eigenharp
- we need to create more tutorials, covering different aspects of the Eigenharp
- creating tutorials is best done by people that didn’t build it, we’re too close to it
- we can use the help from the community here! 🙂
- how to get audio out of the iPad into something else
Posted in Tip.
Tagged with Clubhouse, Demonstration, Eigenharp, Tip.
By Geert Bevin
– April 3, 2012
Steinberg recorded my full demo from Saturday about the Eigenharp and Cubase Note Expression … many kudos to them for having done this!
Posted in Controllers, Demonstration, Software.
Tagged with Cubase, Demo, Musikmesse, Note expression, Steinberg.
By Geert Bevin
– March 29, 2012
I met up with Nick Batt from SonicState at MusikMesse 2012 and we recorded this 10 minute video about the Eigenharp software improvements since launch, two years ago.
Posted in Software.
Tagged with EigenD, Musikmesse, Software, SonicState, Stage, Update, Workbench.
By Geert Bevin
– March 27, 2012
Recording of the weekly Eigenharp Clubhouse on Google+ Hangouts, March 26, 2012
We’ve talked about:
- MusikMesse report, SonicState, Steinberg Note Expression
- AudioFanzine not wanting to write news item, for no obvious reason
- Hangout technical problems again
- a previous Hangout had no audio
- Zurich usergroup workshop about how to get successful as a band, report from Dragica
- Geert mentions Derek Sivers’ book “How to call attention to your music“
- back to workshop report
- credit card fraud stories
- iPad 3 experiences
- EigenD on iOS?
- resuming news from MusikMesse
- Schmidt Analog Synthesizer
- Geert tried out the new AlphaSphere instrument
- Mike teaches us how to grill steak 🙂
- thoughts about better supporting Cubase Note Expression from the Eigenharp
- how to call a MIDI controller that doesn’t use MIDI?
- one Eigenharp challenge is how to hold, how interact with it, which technique to learn
Posted in Tip.
Tagged with Clubhouse, Demonstration, Eigenharp, Tip.
By Geert Bevin
– March 26, 2012
Robin Fairey has posted a series of excellent live recordings of a recital that was performed at Emmanuel College Music Society in Cambridge.
This is my personal favorite:
Chasing Cheese, Uncranked Reel, Starling’s Scorn
The tunes are Chasing Cheese, Uncranked Reel and Starling’s Scorn, all written by Will Bainbridge.
Starling’s Scorn is described by Will as sounding like ‘A small fluffy thing getting very angry’ (at least when playing it through his music notation program). We therefore refer to this tune affectionately as ‘Angry Birds’.
All the recorded audio can be listened to on SoundCloud also:
Fiddle – Tom Furnival
Fiddle – James McNamara
Guitar – Will Bainbridge
Eigenharp – Robin Fairey
Audio recorded by Matt Cooper and Sascha Goodman.
Below are the other four videos:
Posted in Controllers, Live, Song.
Tagged with Eigenharp, Folk, Live, Music, Recital, Songs.
By Geert Bevin
– March 21, 2012
For the past few days, I’ve been working on a new Illuminator agent for EigenD that gives you full control over the Eigenharp lights.
There are two main ways of using the lights: fixed patterns and dynamic control. Fixed patterns can be stored in your setup and can be displayed at will. The dynamic control can either be done through messages inside the EigenD system or by sending external messages over HTTP to EigenD. These messages can either control individual lights or set bitmaps that will display directly on the keyboard.
In this demo I show how tweets are scrolling over the Eigenharp Alpha’s neck even while I’m playing on it.
Posted in Controllers, Demonstration.
Tagged with Control, Demonstration, Eigenharp, Lights, Remote, Twitter.
By Geert Bevin
– March 21, 2012
Recording of the weekly Eigenharp Clubhouse on Google+ Hangouts, March 19, 2012
We’ve talked about:
- Eigenharp key positioning row, columns, courses, keys
- Physical versus musical layout
- Mode key sensitivity
- New EigenD factory setups, early quirks
- Setting up named AU/Midi Converter parameters to use together with the Routing Matrix
- Geert’s weekend hack that allows Eigenharp lights to be set through HTTP
- Display scrolling text on your Alpha
- Display Tweets in real time
- Illuminator agent choose mode to draw light patterns on Eigenharp
- How to set up Illuminator in Workbench
- Workbench tips and tricks, shortcuts and modifiers
- Euphonix MC Mic and MX Control
- Upcoming MusikMesse
- First experiences with the new Fingerer agent
- Mike brainstorming about an Eigenharp Alpha fingering config
- Learning finger positions is a lot of work
- Tweak to Geert’s hang drum setup, minor detunes when your hit the metal
- Steinberg Padshop, VST Note Expression, VST 3
- Cubase Note Expression current limitations
- Eigenharp text scroller readability, pixel fiddling
- Text scroller improvements brainstorming
- Cross skitch alphabets for an inspirationf
- Where to get the text scroller and updated Illuminator version
Posted in Tip.
Tagged with Clubhouse, Demonstration, Eigenharp, Tip.
By Geert Bevin
– March 20, 2012
EigenD 2.0.38 has been released and it has got plenty of sweet goodness!
This release contains an initial collection of factory setups but due to their novelty, it is not advised for use in any rehearsal or live situations.
Because this is an experimental release, please be aware that setups created with this release may not be usable in subsequent releases. This will remain the case until the 2.0 series enters the testing phase.
This release introduces an experimental first version of the new Fingerer agent which allows groups of keys to be fingered in monophonic fashion, in the same way as valved instruments. It also provides interesting additions that still allow for polyphonic playing. We invite everyone to try out its current features and behaviour to help us fine-tune the final functionalities. The Fingerer documentation can be found on the wiki:
http://www.eigenlabs.com/wiki/2.0/Fingerer/
The Illuminator agent is also new in this release and provides an easy way to set up lighting patterns on the Eigenharp keyboards. Its documentation can also be found on the wiki: http://www.eigenlabs.com/wiki/2.0/Illuminator/
Changes and Improvements
EigenD
- Fully functioning factory setups are now included for Alpha, Tau and Pico
- Example modular synth setups for Alpha, Tau and Pico
- New Fingerer agent
- New Illuminator agent
- Keygroup outputs can now be individually enabled or toggled through Belcanto
- Alpha and Tau debouncing system is now configurable
- The note player has been extracted from the Recorder agent into a new Player agent
- Improvements to Recorder agent auxiliary port name linking
- Added a fixed Controller Input to the Recorder agent
- Port cleanups and naming improvements to Ranger, Shaper, Arranger, Audio, Stringer agents
- Controller agent now automatically discovers its feedback input
- Generic dialog handler for Return and Escape keys
- Alpha, Tau and Pico startup behaviour is more efficient
- Added a modifier input to the scaler which is acting as a fixed range pitch bend, currently used by the Fingerer agent
- Added support for strip controllers to prototype OSC Output agent
- EigenBrowser could sometimes fail to display its data
Workbench
- More consistent naming of channels and filters
- GUI layout improvements
- Increased the maximum dimensions of the Workbench window
Stage
- The widget increments are now useful by default
The full release notes, including the list of fixed bugs can be found here
Have fun!
Geert
Posted in Software.
Tagged with EigenD, Release, Workbench.
By Geert Bevin
– March 16, 2012
I will be demonstrating the unique expressiveness of the Eigenharp Alpha and highlighting the perfect match between Cubase Note Expression and the Eigenharp. Demonstrations on the Steinberg / Cubase stand will be on:
Friday 23rd March at 16:00
Saturday 24th March at 12:00
Hall 5.1 Booth B78
This is a unique opportunity to try out an Eigenharp in Europe, before and after each demo. To request a meeting, please contact Eigenlabs at customerservices@eigenlabs.com as soon as possible.
Posted in Controllers, Demonstration.
Tagged with Cubase, Demonstration, Eigenharp, Expressiveness, Musikmesse, Note expression, Pico, Steinberg.
By Geert Bevin
– March 14, 2012
Today, I’m testing the newly built +Eigenharp factory setups for the upcoming EigenD 2 release and I’m making sure that everything is correctly wired up for each instrument, each AU/VST and all the parameters. So I’m going through every combination and mapping, one by one, including the four pedal inputs to the Basestation Pro. This is the first time I have all four pedals connected together, two expression pedals and two switches.
The ones in this picture are from left to right:
Yamaha FC3 (sustain)
Boss FV500-L (expression)
Bespeco VM24 (switch)
Yamaha FC5 (switch)
Posted in Controllers, Setup, Software.
Tagged with EigenD, Eigenharp, Pedal, Setup.
By Geert Bevin
– March 13, 2012
