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John S. Nolan creates guitar tab to Eigenharp convertor

John’s on a roll, after creating the very useful EigenTab tool, he now has released an experimental utility that automatically converts guitar ASCII tabulatures to an Eigenharp notation. It automatically figures out which scales are usable for playing the melody you’re converting and has an interesting heat map feature that indicates how often notes are played. This can be very useful to figure out of it’s a one handed or two handed piece.

Go check out Guitar2EigenTab and give John feedback!

 

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EigenD 1.3.29 has been released as stable

After a year of continuous development and bug fixing, the 1.3 branch of EigenD has been promoted to stable. Everyone is encouraged to upgrade as it offers a great deal of new features, improvements and bug fixes.

You can download it from the Eigenlabs website:
http://www.eigenlabs.com/downloads/releases/eigend-1329-stable/

Below is a summary of the highlights:

  • Stage : a graphical user interface for accessing parameters in EigenD setups. Stage allows users to create customized layouts of on-screen controls, such as sliders and knobs, to manipulate the setup parameters that they would like to control. More information here:  http://www.eigenlabs.com/wiki/Stage/
  • New routing matrix: the controller routing matrix for the AU/VSTs is now also capable of configuring which MIDI messages should be sent. This MIDI routing functionality is also available for the MIDI output instruments. More information here:  http://www.eigenlabs.com/wiki/Routing_Matrix/
  • All factory setups of all instruments have carefully designed Stage tabs that allow for the control of most important performance parameters of EigenD
  • The Tau factory setups have improved a lot and received MIDI input support, amongst other things.
  • All instrument quick reference guides have been updated to reflect the new features.
  • Belcanto now supports sending program change messages to AU hosts and MIDI
    convertors.
  • Addition of ‘legato mode’ for selecting the same MIDI channel when an Eigenharp controller is active. This allows notes to temporarily be sent to the same MIDI channel even if polyphonic channel cycling is activated.
  • Improved sleep and wake from sleep support when EigenD is running.
  • Much improved USB driver for Windows.

Detailed release notes are available as usual as a PDF.

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Eigenharp Clubhouse recordings

Every Monday at 16h00 CET we’ve been meeting in a virtual Eigenharp Clubhouse using Google+ Hangouts. It has been great fun and very interesting. Feel free to join us during one of the next ones. However, if you can’t make it, you can always look but at the recordings. Below are the videos of the first five weeks.

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First live Eigenharp Alpha recording from my band

Here’s a recording of “Same Place Again” my band Flytecase’s first original song on the Eigenharp Alpha, played live in a small pub in Charleroi, Belgium. Hope you like it!

The song can be freely downloaded from SoundCloud.

Do check out our other music and videos on our website.

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Eigenharp Alpha – Guide des fonctionnalités en Français

Voici un guide exhaustif des fonctionnalités de l’Eigenharp Alpha. Chaque touche de la configuration d’usine est expliquée.

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Eigenharp Clubhouse 2

Recording of the weekly Eigenharp Clubhouse on Google+ Hangouts, August 29, 2011:
http://talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/extras/talk.google.com/eigenharpclubhouse

We’ve talked about:

  • Antonio’s In Castillo show
  • Hammered dulcimers
  • Docs and developer load
  • Workbench and 2.0 in a few months time
  • FX problems (again)
  • Approaches to learning the Eigenharp
  • The styles of music being created by the various participants the challenge of playing with other musicians
  • Dragicas upcoming gig
  • BangStrokeBlow videos
  • Keyboard layouts
  • Chromatic layouts and repeated keys vs no repeats
  • Marker lights for tonics
  • Wiki and edit rights

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Check out my new artist website

My previous artist website was long overdue for a make-over as it I put it online more than 13 years ago! This was before the prevalence of blogs, social networks, artist communities, video sharing … mp3 was still a novelty!

Check it out and do tell me what you think!

http://gbevin.com

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Eigenharp clubhouse every Monday at 16h CET

Last Monday we had our first Eigenharp clubhouse, it was very ad-hoc and improvised, mostly to check technical things etc. As of next Monday I’ll be organizing an Eigenharp clubhouse every Monday at 16h CET using Google+ hangout. You can circle me through my G+ profile, feel free to ask me for an invite if you’re not on G+ yet.

In addition to meeting up, I’ll be recording the hangout and streaming it out directly on my Livestream, here’s a recording from last Monday.

See you next week!

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Eigenharp Clubhouse 1

Recording of the weekly Eigenharp Clubhouse on Google+ Hangouts, August 22, 2011:
http://talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/extras/talk.google.com/eigenharpclubhouse

We’ve talked about:

  • Geert playing and waiting!
  • Dragica joins. Dragicas upcoming gig.
  • Choice of time for hangout.
  • Setup for D’s gig.
  • Discussion of Flute instruments.
  • Omnisphere flute
  • Geert demos Orange Tree Samples Passion flute. Harmonics on breath cc. Microphone settings on samples.
  • Sound flower problems!!
  • Duncan joins.
  • Geert discusses the strummer concept vs strum in Kontakt sample
  • Duncan talking about strip controller FX issues.
  • Geert demos how this works, and mentioned reviewing FX plugins to recommend, and some that might ship with 2.0. No details though!
  • Strip controller sensitivity on pico vs alpha.

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Eigenharp ‘clubhouse’ on Google+ hangout

Hi everyone,

This has been floating around my mind for a little while now. I think it would be really cool to have a weekly virtual clubhouse about the Eigenharp on Google+, using hangouts.

Who would be interested? What’s your timezone? Which days would be appropriate? I would personally be interested any weekday in the morning before 10am CET or any time during the day on Monday before 17h CET.

If you’re not on Google+, let me know, I have a lot of invites left. This is my profile: http://gplus.to/gbevin

Take care,

Geert

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