Amazing future musical instrument of the future
by Andy on Nov.30, 2009, under Automation, Awesome, Crazy, Internet Culture, Video
Wow this is sweet. Check out this instrument that I’ve never heard of before, the Eigenharp Alpha, by Eigen Labs. It’s a professional instrument that took 8 years of development.
Available in a variety of finishes, it has 120 highly sensitive keys, 12 percussion keys, 2 strip controllers, a breath pipe and numerous pedal inputs. This gives almost endless possibilities for flexible keyboard layouts, fast instrument switching and expressive musical control. The comprehensive software system provides a wealth of musical performance features, including playback of its own native instruments, many common software plugins, soundfonts or midi instruments.
That’s crazy. I would like to see one of these up close, jeez. I wonder how hard it would be to learn. Requires Mac OS X to run the software. They also appear to have an easier-2-master’ version, the Pico.



























