Hi Rich
Ableton Live and/or Logic).
It would be perfect to have the five octaves as notes. Higher (or lower)
notes should be used to switch the keyboard mode: Imagine you could
press four notes by MIDI and the switch by MIDI to chordmemory; then you
could play the memorized chord again by MIDI; then switch by MIDI to
arpeggiator and then give the arpeggio notes by MIDI.... endless games)
Hamburg. The guy did programming for theater and TV lighting. The
interface originally was inspired by a performance, where a musician
coupled CV-controlled dimmers to an analogue modular synth. Harms
thought, that it is cool to have the same, but having a MIDI-keyboard
instead of the analog synth keyboard: The envelopes and the LFO (with
modulation amount by MIDI-events!) are calculated in the interface. So
in the first run he did not intend to use it for synths!
In fact: If you have a VCO/VCF/VCA you can do the rest (programmable!)
in the interface. A very nice aspect is, that you can assign several
gates in different retrigger modes to one "voice" (which is defined by
the channel, which produces the keyboard CV). Example given: you play
legato and every new key triggers a VCA-envelope, but only the notes
after a pause cause a VCF-Envelope.
The complete project died, when Hauke lost his complete computer gear -
computer with harddisk, all backup tapes, everything (don't know the
exact circumstances).
Florian
> I would like to be able to utilize the arpeggiator and poly modes, IAll you said is valid for me (with the exception, that I am using
> think it might depend on how much it costs to buy a unit that does it.
> I also own a Polysix! That would be nice to find a solution for
> both. I'm writing some dance music for a project and am unhappy with
> many softsynths and vst plugins (i'm using cubase), to be able to
> control my analog synths via midi and record the output would be ideal
> for many parts i'm envisioning. I could most possibly use the
> midijack and just layer parts multitrack style.
Ableton Live and/or Logic).
It would be perfect to have the five octaves as notes. Higher (or lower)
notes should be used to switch the keyboard mode: Imagine you could
press four notes by MIDI and the switch by MIDI to chordmemory; then you
could play the memorized chord again by MIDI; then switch by MIDI to
arpeggiator and then give the arpeggio notes by MIDI.... endless games)
> The Harms unit you are using is no longer in production?No itis no longer in production. The company was a one man show from
Hamburg. The guy did programming for theater and TV lighting. The
interface originally was inspired by a performance, where a musician
coupled CV-controlled dimmers to an analogue modular synth. Harms
thought, that it is cool to have the same, but having a MIDI-keyboard
instead of the analog synth keyboard: The envelopes and the LFO (with
modulation amount by MIDI-events!) are calculated in the interface. So
in the first run he did not intend to use it for synths!
In fact: If you have a VCO/VCF/VCA you can do the rest (programmable!)
in the interface. A very nice aspect is, that you can assign several
gates in different retrigger modes to one "voice" (which is defined by
the channel, which produces the keyboard CV). Example given: you play
legato and every new key triggers a VCA-envelope, but only the notes
after a pause cause a VCF-Envelope.
The complete project died, when Hauke lost his complete computer gear -
computer with harddisk, all backup tapes, everything (don't know the
exact circumstances).
Florian