In the quest to play more with physical models I revived a dinosaur from the past: Tassman 4.

In the quest to play more with physical models I revived a dinosaur from the past: Tassman 4. It still sounds great and there isn’t much else like it out there when it comes to modular synths with focus on physical modelling, even in late 2016 (well, Kaivo and Chromaphone, but these are not fully modular).

And I am glad to report that it works in VpC mode with Eigenharp! You can define the midi channel for each (mono) keyboard or modulation source (as well as for midi learning of the knobs that strangely are not available as inputs in the builder view but only can be automated in the context menu of the knobs in the player view).

For some reason I don’t fully understand yet you then have to set the global MIDI channel to 1 instead of Omni – then VpC works. For Omni all events are copied to all channels (as expected), for 1 strangely all events stay on their channels as they come from EigenD. (Which might be a bug originally, but it’s great in this case!)

Very positive surprise to have Tassman back in the arsenal! 🙂

I’ve run into an issue I’m unable to solve.

I’ve run into an issue I’m unable to solve. If I load a setup in EigenD, everything is fine. BUT, if I then open up Workbench I get a blinking green light within a minute or so. It also happens if I load MainStage after starting EigenD. However, If I first load MainStage, and don’t switch patches or open Workbench, it works.

Community release 2.1.2 on OSX 10.11.6. I have tried to reinstall EigenD and remove all my setups, etc. All I need to do to get the error is to load a blank setup, open workbench and add the alpha manager. If I wait a minute or so it will fail.

To make things even stranger, the Tau default setup don’t appear to have this issue. I can load that setup and open both workbench and MainStage without getting the light.

I am all out of ideas. I was working on a new setup when this started happening. But my “old” setup I haven’t touched in months have the same problem. As far as I know I have not made any changes on my mac in quite some time, and have been using the Tau almost daily without encountering this before. On my Win10 laptop everything works fine.

Anyone encountered this before? Or have any ideas for what I could do to track it down?

I’m having trouble building linux EigenD for 2.1.5 or 2.1.6 on arm7 (raspberry pi – arm 32bit).

I’m having trouble building linux EigenD for 2.1.5 or 2.1.6 on arm7 (raspberry pi – arm 32bit).

in both cases, the compiles all work fine, but when the linker goes to assemble things, it chokes on the pico decoder.

tmp/bin/libpico_decoder_1_0_0.so: error adding symbols: File in wrong format

I’ve had a look through to see if there is any x86 specific compile instructions in the make config, but I am afraid that I’m not too familiar with SCons. I’m a gnu autoconf cowboy. I also don’t see anything platform specific in the code.

I’m sure that all I need to do is add a linker flag, but not sure where or what it is expecting. Wondering if anyone might know what I am missing.

Where in an SCons build can I specify compiler and flags? I’m sure if I just passed an explicit –arch=armv7 that the linker would be happy.

I’m still running 2.1.2 which builds fine and does what I need, but it would be nice to know moving forward what I should be doing.

If anyone has any insight, please lemme know.

here’s an odd question for those with a Tau.

here’s an odd question for those with a Tau. If you knock on the body of the Tau is if you were knocking on a door, do the key lights flicker? They certainly do with mine.

After the failure of my Tau in performance last June, I set it aside for four months. On returning to it now, I find its misbehavior has not changed. It still will run only for three or four minutes before either going completely dark or reverting to one green blinking light on the bottom key of the left column of keys. Sometimes, it will spontaneously recover for a few seconds only to go dark again.

I’ve tested the cable between the Tau and the base station with continuity tester. It’s just fine. I tried various USB cables, no change in behavior.

I’ve updated the software to the most recent from TheTechnobear/EigenD github repo. Still the exact same behavior.

Honestly, I’m about ready to feed it to the wood chipper.

So I finally got around to playing with the arranger to try to sequence a bass track.

So I finally got around to playing with the arranger to try to sequence a bass track.

It’s pretty cool, but for the life of me I cannot seem to figure out how to set the note length. So for some of the more evolving bass sounds, the sample gets chopped on the 1/4 note default.

I see there is a way to do this in belcanto, but I am frankly very bad at belcanto and find it counter-intuitive.

Can someone point me in the right direction for the documentation for this?

There are some videos on youtube, but the sound is so low, that even with my speakers cranked, I simply cannot hear what they are saying.

Thanks in advance!

Softube modular

Softube modular

Ok, Im a sucker for virtual modulars, but I’ll admit, often they tend to sound a bit digital… but this is different, this really has fantastic sound quality.

not as flexible as Reaktor Blocks, but the quality of the modules is better… not surprising as you pay for them 🙂

I really hope other manufactures can be tempted to jump on board, and given they will (presumably) be paid, it seems like it could happen, its not a ‘competition’ to their hardware business.

anyway, I used it via VpC, and even basic patches sound brilliant.

tips for how to do this, as no official MPE support yet.

– create a rig, with one voice

– take midi note and pitchbend, to cv mixer, put 4x multiple on pitchbend input, which will give you 48 semis rather than 12.

– use mod wheel (CC1) rather than CC74.

– then duplicate this track for N voices, and change input to individual channels 1-N.

perhaps not as neat as having it all in one rack BUT actually I found it made it easer to edit the voices, as you just reload the saved preset, or in ableton just duplicate the tracks again…oh and separate tracks = separate threads for performance 🙂

demo is available, you need an iLok account (free) , but its soft iLok, so you don’t need a dongle on anything. 20 days with no limits, as far as i could tell… but be-warned its addictive 🙂

p.s. if you need more virtual modular, checkout pulsarmodular.com and Pulsar 900 (mac only) , nice sound moog modular.

http://www.softube.com/index.php?id=modular//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

Anyone got any suggestions on extending the Tau endpin?

Anyone got any suggestions on extending the Tau endpin? It’s awkward for playing seated and I’d like to put another 30cm or thereabouts on it. Tons of cello endpins for sale out there, but nothing with the somewhat unusual design of the tau’s endpin.

I read on the wiki that Eigenlabs was selling cello endpins for about £100, but stopped making them.

I might just print something (I’ve a 3d printer here) as a sorta adapter for classic cello endpins, but was wondering if anyone else has already done something similar or has recommendations for existing stuff.

Hi Guys

Hi Guys,

Dumb noob problem here. I am struggling unsuccessfully to add an illuminator to the factor Tau setup so I can light up frets on keygroup one.

The online tutorial is of course written for a simplified pico setup, but it’s easy enough to follow and adapt for a tau.

So i get the whole thing set up, including a new kegroup to access a new talker that sends the commands, but here’s where I get utterly lost.

I go into my new keygroup, select the green color, then what? If I do anything that exits the advanced mode, try to select keygroup one with the mode button, and then try to select any keys, nothing happens at all. As near as I can tell, I have set everything up right, but something about the setup on the tau means that the physical choose operation goes out of scope when trying to select keygroup 1.

Pulling my hair out here trying to figure out what I’ve done wrong, and for the life of me, can’t find anything. I need a more experienced user to maybe explain to me in baby steps what is going on, and what I’m doing wrong.

The pico tutorial just isn’t cutting it for me.

Scroll / EigenBrowser problem with Tau

Scroll / EigenBrowser problem with Tau

Wondering if anyone knows what the issue might be. When using the tau, and trying to browse sound fonts or AU/VSTs I can get the browser to display on the monitor by clicking the browse button for that particular setup, but….

Scrolling does not work. Key X/Y does not appear to be bound to any scrolling or selecting behavior.

Using windows btw.

Tried on two diff machines, and nada.

Using factory setups.

Any ideas?