Eigenharpist Geert Bevin has found a new use for his Eigenlabs Eigenharp – as a game controller. It may be extreme overkill, but that has never been a problem for us at Synthtopia.
Here’s what Bevin has to say about using the Eigenharp as a game controller: Continue reading
Reader Geert Bevin, inspired by how Animoog 2 works with his Eigenharp Alpha as much as the impending apocalypse, created This Is Not The End. The composition explores how different types of touches on the Eigenharp can be used to create very different sounds with Animoog.
Here’s Bevin’s explanation of the technical details:
Sunday Synth Jam: An ambient synth jam on the Eigenlabs Eigenharp, by Paul Harriman, at Electro-Music 2012.
via Mark Mosher
Sunday Synth Jam: António Machado demonstrates the new ‘strummer’ feature of the Eigenharp, in this video, while improvising with Modartt PianoTeq.
Technical details below.
This video, via Eigenharpist Geert Bevin, demonstrates a new capability that is under development for WolfGang Palm’s PPG WaveGenerator – voice-per-channel MIDI expression.
Here’s what Bevin has to say about it:
I’ve been helping Wolfgang Palm with adding a new feature to PPG Wavegenerator that allows per-note expression over MIDI, by implementing a voice-per-channel MIDI mode. This is a quick test of the first fully working version he sent me today. It’s short, but I hope it shows the possibilities of this feature with new electronic instruments like the Eigenharp.
Note that this demo is only using one single sound that has independent expression in three axis for each individual note.
I’m using a modified version of the standard ‘Jigsaw Lead’ patch that has up-down movement mapped to per-note filter cutoff (Y movement in PPG), pressure (X movement in PPG) to note volume and left-right movement to per-note pitch with a 5 semitone interval.
At this point, this is a sneak preview of an unreleased feature. But apps like PPG WaveGenerator could make polyphonic synth expression, something that’s largely been limited to rare and expensive synths, into a relatively inexpensive option.
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via reader Geert Bevin, captures his looping arrangement of the Game Of Thrones theme on Eigenharp Alpha.
Here’s what he’s got to say about the performance:
Here?s a cover of the theme from ?Game of Thrones? that I?ve been working on and even though it’s not perfect yet, I thought it’s good enough to show some of natively modeled sounds of the Eigenharp.
The cello and the violin you?re hearing are the built into EigenD and tweaked a bit in terms of frequency and convolution to my liking. The rest are samples, ?Epic Toms? and ?Requiem Pro? from 8DIO, I?m also using Mobius for audio looping and triggering it both from a MIDI foot pedal and the Eigenharp.
All sounds were played live and recorded independently on separate tracks, then mixed afterwards.