I have some hardware synths from the early 80s with very early midi processing ICs that are terribly slow, like a…

I have some hardware synths from the early 80s with very early midi processing ICs that are terribly slow, like a DX7, Prophet, etc. Thing is that the chips on these crawl compared to modern offerings and they only had 128b as a buffer.

Even with data decimation taken to the max 100ms, the eigenharp floods their buffers in two keystrokes.

So I was gonna write a midi filter agent to control the buffer size and increase decimation to up to 200 ms, but BEFORE I go and do all that, I thought it might be smarter to ask the crew here is they have a better solution?

I’m running the tau with a headless raspberry pi with a lightweight midi setup, so patching it through a bunch of third party software is probably a solid “No’.

Maybe puredata because it’s lightweight.

Wondering if Mark or Geert have had to deal with this before?

So I upgraded to sierra folks……..(Macbook PRO MID 2011 i7 8 GIG)

So I upgraded to sierra folks……..(Macbook PRO MID 2011 i7 8 GIG)

Guess I have to do some version of this?

“EigenD resources will currently not install correctly on Mac OS 10.11+

if you require these then you need to disable SIP, install the resources then move them manually from /usr/pi to /usr/local/pi” -From Mr. Harris

2.1.7 is the only Eigen D version that loads…… but no piano samples and

a real messed up sounding cello. Do really I have to re-install resources or just disable SIP and move them? Also I’m not sure of the full path file name for

“/usr/pi”….. is that it? so close to root?

On a bright note the awesome 88 electric piano from waves seems to work.

Any advice to fix resources to get the piano / samples back?

Thanks,

Tefman.

Axoloti MPE – using new MI modules

Axoloti MPE – using new MI modules

I thought Id share this, as its a lovely video by a contributor on the axoloti forum – although its on a Linnstrument, it obviously works on the Eigenharp too.

its a couple of nice patches that are now in the community library.

the heart of one of the patches is based on the new ‘brds’ object, which is a port of mutable instrument braids.

the great thing is, we also ported other MI objects, including rings, elements and clouds, warps.

after seeing this I dug into braids a bit more, and found just a couple of objects, and you can get some really nice stuff e.g. braids into rings/reverb. (I’ll do some videos too soon)

… and of course its all ‘standalone’ no computer needed … a perfect match for stuff I’m doing on the rPI 🙂

https://youtu.be/XNx5zb3PuAw

https://youtu.be/XNx5zb3PuAw//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

a good illustration of Strobe 2’s new MPE features.

a good illustration of Strobe 2’s new MPE features.

its a really good approach, allowing you to adjust response rates on all dimensions for individual patches, useful for all controllers.

its interesting playing the roli patches on the Eigenharp (and Soundplane) as you can really feel the patches need to be adjusted to take into account their unique nature.

this is not surprising, but its just so evident how much difference this really makes… and I can now understand why Roli and Haken are reluctant to release their synths for other MPE controllers… the presets just wont translate that well.

anyway, great free update if you already have strobe 2 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YqIsTY_EFw

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I need some help with the midi converter windows.

I need some help with the midi converter windows. When I assign the strip or a key to any CC the most infuriating thing happens and I can’t seem to stop it.

The instant my finger leaves the key, it reverts to a default value. So imagine that you wanted to map the strip to your volume control, no matter what options you try, the second your finger leaves the strip, the volume resets to 0.

This is the same with the buttons.

I am trying to set up a few buttons to work as CC for controlling some parameters in my VST, and it is a nightmare. I get the CC messages as long as I hold the buttons, and when I release them, they send everything back to 0, as if they were momentary toggles.

The option to return to origin in the matrix editor appears to do nothing, and in my software it doesn’t matter if I set anything to relative or absolute mode in the VST. Doesn’t matter.

How can I stop this?

If I set a volume, I do NOT want it to go to 0 when my finger leaves a key.

Very frustrating.

Anyone know how to do this? Is there some black magic I have to invoke in workbench?

Hello.

Hello. I got me a new Pico and spent some time this past week trying to get it work on Linux with invaluable help from TheTechnobear. Now I would like to see how different the experience is on Windows to know what I am missing.

I got myself a windows 10 operating system to which I am a complete newbie since I haven’t used Windows for many years. I went through the installation procedure (runtime, then drivers, then eigend 2.0.74, then finally support, which seems to have found the resources).

I can fire up eiged. I have the Pico connected. Sound works otherwise. But I am not getting any thing to tell me the Pico works.

I’d really like to get it running, and I am slow at windows, so any detailed help would be great.

Thanks.

Hello, I am trying to run the Pico on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS using EigenD community-2.1.7, and I don’t think I am very far…

Hello, I am trying to run the Pico on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS using EigenD community-2.1.7, and I don’t think I am very far away from getting it to work:

1. Download two files (x86_64 DEB package and start shell script) from Github, and feel grateful to TheTechnobear. In Terminal:

$ wget https://github.com/TheTechnobear/EigenD/releases/download/community-2.1.7/EigenD-gpl-2.1.7-community-x86_64.deb

$ wget https://github.com/TheTechnobear/EigenD/releases/download/community-2.1.7/linux_eigend.sh.txt

2. Install required packages, the EigenD package, and copy start shell script to location

$ sudo apt-get install -y build-essential libiw-dev libfreetype6-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxcursor-dev libasound2-dev libxinerama-dev mesa-common-dev

$ sudo dpkg -i EigenD-gpl-2.1.7-community-x86_64.deb

$ sudo cp linux-eigend.sh.txt /usr/local/pi/release-2.1.7-community/linux-eigend.sh

3. Run EigenD

$ sudo ./usr/local/pi/release-2.1.7-community/linux_eigend.sh

Plugin scan begins (and crashes) during the first run. EigenD window doesn’t really start. I think it also crashes for trying to load an Alpha set up.

Questions:

1. What am I missing?

2. Does Ubuntu have the right ‘USB drivers’?

3. Does the Pico need to be plugged in at any point during installation/initial running?

4. Are there any changes to file or folder permissions that need to be manually applied? What are they?

5. I understand I still need the beast of a Resource download (3.8 GB). I understand I need to expand the EXE/RAR file. Do I also need to unzip the five ZIP archives inside it? Where should the resulting directories go?

6. Do I need to obtain VSTModuleArchitectureSDK.zip from Steinberg’s website? If yes, where does the unzipped folder go?

7. Do I need to manually change the default setup? How?

Thanks very much for all the work!

Just listened to the demos of a new physical modelling+sample based hybrid approach for violin simulation.

Just listened to the demos of a new physical modelling+sample based hybrid approach for violin simulation. Absurdly realistic. Wondering how well this would work with Eigenharp&Co when played in realtime…

http://www.samplemodeling.com/en/demos_violin.php

http://www.samplemodeling.com/en/demos_violin.php//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js