Word to the wise.

Word to the wise.

The documentation on building under windows is erroneous and incomplete, and does not reflect current status of the asio sdk, and Visual Studio deps.

I just got it to build under VS2015 successfully and it works great. I would if it were possible like to amend the build instructions for those that ran into the same pitfalls as I and whom may not have the experience to sort it out.

The bld.cmd needs to be augmented to set proper environment variables in later versions of Visual Studio, and the instructions for including the steinberg libraries is incomplete as a number of headers in base need to be included also.

Who do I bug about adding some documentation to make this easier for the next fella?

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Need some advice with ableton.

Need some advice with ableton.

In short, the midi rigs do not show up in the ableton preferences under Windows. All other midi controllers show. So I can’t use my tau as a controller in ableton.

Is this a known issue and are there work arounds?

Same behavior on 2.1.0 and 2.0.74. Have confirmed that I have midi out 1 selected as my instrument mode (tried with midi out 2 as well), and have confirmed that in my midi rig windows that there are reasonable settings in the matrix. It is honestly like the midi device is not available to applications other than EigenD.

Is there a way to connect the Tau midi output to ableton, or something that I am missing?

I’m the proud owner of a new Tau and am completely in love.

I’m the proud owner of a new Tau and am completely in love. Still learning things. Worked through the tutorial videos, and the somewhat… um… sparse documentation on getting started, but I am up and running, and discovering new possibilities daily.

I just wanted to say hi, and thanks for all the information I found via this community.

Still struggling with how to do a few things, so I may ask you all a few very dumb questions from time to time, but everyone seems super open, so hopeully you won’t laugh too hard if I ask something ridiculous.

Great to see such a vibrant community!

Interesting interview with Jordan Rudess about MPE instruments in general (and of course Seaboard and Rudess playing…

Interesting interview with Jordan Rudess about MPE instruments in general (and of course Seaboard and Rudess playing and thinking about Seaboards and Rudess iPad apps in particular).

Just click on the video. Only the first few sentences are in German, the entire rest of the interview is in English.

One thing I wholeheartly agree with – a new instrument does not only require a signature way to play but a signature sound to become “a recognizable thing”. That said of course different people can play the same device with completely different sounds. But then they probably kind of play different instruments really that require their own way of playing, thinking, literature etc., making it hard to establish something desirable and possible to learn from/teach as a teacher.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Interview-Jordan-Rudess-ueber-Knautsch-Keyboards-MPE-und-Musik-Apps-3129553.html

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Mainstage 3.2.3 / Logic Pro 10.2.1 released – Alchemy expression support

Mainstage 3.2.3 / Logic Pro 10.2.1 released – Alchemy expression support

Apparently the new version of MainStage and Logic Pro X have an updated Alchemy with amongst other things expression support. (mono mode as apple call it)

Im downloading to test now… and also to see if they have sneaked in MPE support on others, perhaps the synths that already support note per channel.

Oh boy I always run into a problem when doing a new install. Hopefully this will be the last time in a long time.

Oh boy I always run into a problem when doing a new install. Hopefully this will be the last time in a long time.

I am using windows 8.1  installed everything fine. Opened up eigenD and the Tau seemed to respond, but I couldn’t get any sound out. Went and installed resources and now the Tau is not responding (flashing green light)

Not really sure where to go from here.