Sally Sparks - Softly Remembering on the Haken Continuum

"Experimenting with the Eventide H9 Looper algorithm with the Haken Continuum."

"All sounds are from inside the continuum and of course some outboard fx... but the synth inside the continuum is a massive matrix with mathematecal equasions for patchpoints"

For reference, see: http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/eaganmatrixoverv.html
http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/eaganmatrixmodul.html
http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/Downloads/EaganMatrixUserGuide.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/user/HakenAudio/videos

New Firmware version for Haken Audio Continuum

via Haken Audio: "We are proud to announce that Version 4.20 firmware is now available for download for Continuum Fingerboards with built-in sounds.

Version 4.20 adds two new internal sounds, Four Point FM and Rosin Oscillator, and a new audio processor, Tuned Reverb. The firmware also includes optimizations to sensor scanning, improving performance with Midi and Internal Sounds.
The Continuum Editor has a new look, and supports archiving and retrieving Continuum configuration data to and from disk files.

A series of demonstration movies are accessible through the Continuum Editor's Internal Sound Demo. These movies show playing technique using internal sounds of the Continuum Fingerboard. Configuration parameters on your continuum will be set to match the movie, allowing you to play the same sound that is used in the demonstration performance.

Version 4.20 integrates with the high-quality Kenton Mini Controller. The Kenton Mini Controller may be used in conjunction with the Editor, or in a computerless standalone mode in conjunction with the Kenton USB Midi Host.

For more information, see the press release available from the Haken Audio splash page [PDF].

Two demo movies feature new internal sounds:
http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/html/intsounds/is4PointFM.html
http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/html/intsounds/isRosin.html
The new firmware, new Editor, and new User Guide are available on the Download page:
http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/html/resources/Downloads.html
Please note the new release is several hundred megabytes, and will take some time to download.

All these developments are the latest results of our ongoing dedication and commitment to the Continuum Fingerboard. There will be more exciting things in the near future, as we always have more ideas than time!"

The Wonderful World of the Haken ContinuuMini

video upload by HakenAudio and JOSH MADOFF

Check with dealers on the right for availability and price.

"Join film composer Josh Madoff as he takes you on a tour through the expansive world of the amazing Haken ContinuuMini.

For more info on ContinuuMini: www.hakenaudio.com
To see/hear Josh Madoff's work: www.joshmadoff.com

00:00 Intro
00:28 This is not a toy
03:56 Rounding (pitch assistance)
05:01 The Mini Lever
06:34 Duotactic (2 notes, 1 dynamic)
08:39 The EaganMatrix
10:40 Pedals
13:12 Loris Overlay (Resynthesis)
14:42 Multiple Controllers and 8 note polyphony
16:31 The Tri-Octave Pedal
16:48 Generative Presets & the FX Section
18:06 ContinuuMini as a Controller
22:48 Final Thoughts"

Introducing the Slim 21 Haken Continuum

video upload by HakenAudio and JOSH MADOFF

The Slim 21 is the newest and most portable member of the Continuum family. For more info visit https://www.hakenaudio.com/

Slim21 Continuum (21s8x)

$1,799

21 half steps (nearly 2 octaves)

45 x 19 x 3 cm (17.7 x 7.5 x 1.2 in)

1.6 kg (3.5 lbs)

Stretch String 21

video upload by HakenAudio

"A demonstration of the performance possibilities of the Stretched String Preset on the Haken Audio Slim21 Continuum. Despite its small form factor, the Slim21 has the same specs, features and capabilities as the larger Continuums. For more information visit https://www.hakenaudio.com/"

The Incredible WARBL Wind Controller and the Haken Micro: Featuring Ed Eagan

video upload by HakenAudio

"Watch as Ed Eagan, creator of the Eagan Matrix, demos custom Eagan Matrix presets designed specifically for the WARBL Wind Controller.

The WARBL is a uniquely expressive and sensitive MPE Wind Controller. Paired with a Haken Micro as its sound engine, the WARBL is capable of performances that truly blur the lines between acoustic and electronic music.

To learn more about the Haken Micro and the Eagan Matrix: https: https://www.hakenaudio.com/

To learn more about the WARBL: https://warbl.xyz/"

warbl eaganmatrix demo 15 presets 1080p

video upload by HakenAudio

"Controlling the EaganMatrix sound engine with the Warbl wind controller. The Warbl is sending BLE Midi wirelessly to the EaganMatrix engine via the CME WIDI Host.

https://www.hakenaudio.com/
https://warbl.xyz/
https://www.cme-pro.com/widi-uhost/"

Some info on the WARBL2:

WARBL2 Introduction

video upload by WARBL

"I'm pleased to announce the WARBL2, which contains a host of additions and improvements from the original WARBL. Find more details at https://warbl.xyz/

The following iOS MIDI apps were used for the sounds in this video: Celtic Sounds MIDI Module, SoundFonts, and SWAM violin."

"New! I am happy to announce the WARBL2, which is available as of May 2024 and has many new features and improvements while maintaining the original form factor (it is just 5 mm longer). Improvements include: BLE (wireless) MIDI, an inertial measurement unit (IMU: accelerometer and gyroscope), USB-C, an integrated bell sensor, an RGB LED, a faster ARM® Cortex® processor with much greater storage space, a secondary processor dedicated to reading the optical sensors, higher-resolution pressure-sensor readings, lower power consumption, drag-and-drop firmware upgrades, slightly larger toneholes, and the ability to customize fingering charts completely. There is a NiMH battery that supplies at least 10 hours playing time per charge. Complete documentation is available in the WARBL2 User Manual. The WARBL2 is still completely open source. I will also continue to fully support the original WARBL.

What makes WARBL unique?
WARBL is a USB MIDI and BLE MIDI wind controller that allows the traditional musician to practice with headphones or mimic the sound of any instrument using familiar playing techniques. Designed to simulate a variety of open-tonehole wind instruments such as tin whistles, flutes, and bagpipes, WARBL has optical sensors and real toneholes for continuous finger sensing and realistic feel. An air-pressure sensor allows playing with breath or a bagpipe bag."

Read more at https://warbl.xyz

Silver Bar

video upload by HakenAudio

"This video explores some of the sonic variations that can be made within this single EaganMatrix preset, 'Silver Bar.' Variations like these can be achieved by making adjustments to the Macro controls within the preset, but more significantly by employing different playing techniques and the Touch Control Area on the playing surface of the Continuum.

Silver Bar employs new firmware 10.50 features in the BiqGraph Bank of the EaganMatrix.

Edmund Eagan is the performer and the EaganMatrix preset designer for this video. More information about the Continuum Fingerboard may be found at www.HakenAudio.com"

Continuum Controls Moog Synthesizer - All Blues [& Jazz] Miles Davis

YouTube via marksmartus2 | January 22, 2011 |

"Mark Smart uses the Haken Continuum Fingerboard and a modular Moog synthesizer to play Miles Davis' tune.

Continuum Fingerboard: http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/i...
Mark Smart: http://www.marksmart.net
Pogo Studio: http://www.pogostudio.net/
Pogo Studio's Moog: http://www.marksmart.net/gearhack/pog..."

Continuum Fingerboard - In a Sentimental Mood

YouTube via marksmartus2 | January 18, 2011 |

"Duke Ellington's beautiful tune played on the Haken Continuum Fingerboard driving Native Instruments' Reaktor software. I did the background track using an Ibanez AR-250 guitar with a Copeland hexaphonic pickup and a pedalboard I built for solo jazz performances.

Continuum Fingerboard: http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/i...
My home page: http://www.marksmart.net/"

The pogomoog

Haken Continuum Version 4.08 OS Update

via STROMKULT

"Version 4.08 firmware is now available for
download for Continuum Fingerboards with
built-in sounds. 4.08 addresses several minor
issues related to our recent 4.07 release:

• A bug fix for playing internal sounds at polyphony 32.
• Corrections to the User Guides.
• A graphical fix in the Continuum Editor.

As well, there is a new naming convention for
firmware data files, making it easier to perform the firmware update.

The 4.08 firmware, Editor, and User Guides are available on the Download
page: http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/html/resources/Downloads.html

We have also posted additional examples using internal sounds:
http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/html/intsounds/isIntro.html

Thank you very much Dr.Haken!"

Continuum Fingerboard - Funk Loops

YouTube via marksmartus2 | January 22, 2011 |

"Mark Smart plays funk on the Continuum Fingerboard.

Continuum Fingerboard: http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/i...
My home page: http://www.marksmart.net"

New Haken ContinuuMini & Evaton µCVC Unveiled at IRCAM - Coming to SUPERBOOTH18

"Evaton Technologies shows uCVC at unveiling of Haken ContinuuMini at IRCAM

Evaton Technologies’ Russ Hoffman [left] was on hand at ContinuuCon Paris this weekend, at IRCAM, to demonstrate the µCVC Eurorack module in conjunction with the release of the new, more affordable, more portable version of Haken Audio Continuum, called the 'ContinuuMini'.

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Jeff Beck vs Rachmaninoff on the Haken Continuum Fingerboard played by Rob Schwimmer

YouTube Uploaded by 5SunkenHeights5 on Nov 10, 2011

Rachmaninoff a la Jeff Beck---This is just one sort of thing that can be done on the incredible Haken Continuum! A tip of the iceberg! I'm a novice on it but it's amazing! So intuitive and organic! Anyway... I've always loved the great guitarists of the 60's--Hendrix, Beck, Clapton, Feiten, etc. As a keyboard player I envied their expressive options--vibrato, note bending, sustain, etc. That's one of the reasons I became a theremin player... (Fact check: I was an electric guitarist throughout junior high and high school doing my best to Hendrix, Clapton, Beck so I do understand playing in that style... Not good enough though: I decided I would give myself 2 weeks of intense practicing and if I wasn't as good as Hendrix or John McLaughlin after 2 weeks, I would quit. Two weeks came--I quit.) I had no real interest in doing this sort of thing on the Continuum but one day I plugged it into my Glenn Wyllie's Shin-Ei Superfuzz (http://www.mindspring.com/~wylo/)
and... ta dah! Big fun! I play this piece on piano (Rachmaninoff's Etude tableau in Ebm op39 #5) and thought I'd see how it went... As I said I'm definitely still a novice and it's far from perfect... but I like it!

(For Continuum players this was done without Rounding)

PS--For more hot Continuum action please be sure to check out their website at hakenaudio.com/ and also be sure to take a look at Edmund Eagan's Continuum work-- He works with Lippold Haken in developing and designing sounds for it and has an inside and out understanding of the instruments sounds and playing modes..."

ERIC CLAPTON'S "STEPPIN' OUT" ON HAKEN CONTINUUM! Rob Schwimmer plays

Published on Jan 5, 2014 Robert Schwimmer·53 videos

"PLAY IT LOUD! PUT IT ON FULL SCREEN! If you like it SHARE it!

This is a replica of Eric Clapton's slashing, aggressive and thrilling guitar classic recorded March 1966 from John Mayall's "The Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton" here played on the amazing HAKEN CONTINUUM FINGERBOARD! The nature of bending notes on the Continuum make it a perfect fit for blues phrasing---This is as much fun to do as it looks! A most sexy instrument... So many different and amazing things you can do with it! Here I used Edmund Eagan's Larynx Horn sound to start with which gives it the "vocal formant envelope" which I like a lot... Incredible responsiveness... although maybe not your typical blues sound... I did the backing track (bass, saxes, drums) on Kontakt and Battery and some processing for the Continuum with Guitar Rig from Native Instruments. The original LP was after Clapton was with The Yardbirds and before Cream--One of my favorite blues guitar albums of all time. I learned to play this track on guitar when I was in junior high school so it's been a part of me for a long time...

Rob Schwimmer

Learn more about the Haken Continuum Fingerboard at hakenaudio.com"

Tesla Coil Music - "Risky Business: A Tribute to Nikola Tesla"

YouTube Uploaded by marksmartus2 on Sep 27, 2011

"'Risky Business: A Tribute to Nikola Tesla' for electroacoustic music, Tesla coils, and live Continuum performance. Performed as the last piece of the University of Illinois New Music Ensemble (http://www.glennweb.net/somsite/ensembles.php#newmusic) Concert at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (http://www.krannertcenter.com/) on September 26, 2009. Continuum and tesla coil parts composed by Mark Smart (http://www.marksmart.net/). Electroacoustic music parts composed by Scott Wyatt (http://ems.music.uiuc.edu/people/wyatt/), director of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios (http://ems.music.uiuc.edu/). Tesla coils built by Steve Ward, Jeff Larson, and Terry "Dr. Zeus" Blake (http://www.mastersoflightning.com/). Tesla coil synthesizer control system designed by Steve Ward and Mark Smart. Mark Smart performs on the Continuum Fingerboard designed by Lippold Haken (http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/). The piece was the recipient of a University of Illinois College of Fine and Applied Arts 2008 Creative Research Award."

15 Minutes of Haken Slim21 Continuum

video upload by HakenAudio and JOSH MADOFF

"Enjoy all of the performances from Film & TV Composer Josh Madoff's video, 'The Wonderful World of the Haken Slim21 Continuum'

The Haken Continuum is the most sensitive and accurate electronic instrument ever made and the new Slim21 has all of the same specs and features as the larger Continuums."

To See/Hear Josh Madoff's work: https://www.joshmadoff.com/

Haken Audio - EaganMatrix Module - Testing Processor Presets

video upload by EaganMatrix Programming

"The HakenAudio Eurorack EaganMatrix module is not only a CV and MPE midi controlled physical modelling synth (supporting many other sound generation models) but also can function as a DSP audio processor. The Module comes with a number of Audio Processing presets in the 'Processor' category that you send Audio to through the L/R Audio input ports. These range from reverb and delays to Karplus Strong and FeedBack Network Delay processing options (many more options will likely be available in future releases and you can easily create your own in the EaganMatrix (certainly a heck of a lot easier than writing your own DSP processing code).

I thought I'd test them all using a filtered, envelope generator shaped noise pulse (which is ideal for some of the Karplus and Delay network examples). Some of them don't do much on a short noise pulse so at the end I run them on constant filtered noise as well.

No talking on this one. Just stepping through the presets sending the noise pulses and then playing with some of the Macro Controls that change various parameters of them in real time - which you can do from the module with the Rotary or through the Haken Editor or using a Midi Controller. But this test is all CV and Audio controlled."

The Wonderful World of the Haken Slim21

video upload by HakenAudio and JOSH MADOFF

"Sit back and enjoy as Film & TV Composer, Josh Madoff ‪@JOSHMADOFF‬ takes you on a tour of the newest and most portable Haken Continuum: the Slim21.

The Haken Continuum is a standalone Synthesizer, MPE Midi Controller, and Audio Processor, that we believe is the most sensitive and accurate electronic instrument ever made."

00:00 Intro
00:45 The Most Sensitive Electronic Instrument
04:50 Dune 2
06:05 Rounding (Pitch Correction)
07:41 The Octave Buttons
08:28 Pressure Weighted Portamento
09:39 Tri-Octave Pedal
11:06 The EaganMatrix
12:03 Touch Area
13:55 Sustain & Sostenuto
16:13 External Midi Controllers & Pedals
17:31 Powerful Audio Processor
17:48 Harmonic Resonator Processor Preset
19:10 Controlling Hardware MPE Synths
21:15 Controlling Software MPE Synths
23:28 Controlling non-MPE Synths
25:23 Final Thoughts

Additional posts

EaganMatrix Colour Delay

video upload by HakenAudio

"A single EaganMatrix preset showing one thought out audio processing possibility with the EaganMatrix eurorack module. A mBiraski kalimba is used as the sound source. The EaganMatrix module is the only module used on the audio path. EaganMatrix bespoke controls i, ii, iii, and iv are controlling Time Offset, Tonal Colour, Delay Time, and Delay Feedback, respectively. The mBiraski audio source is captured, looped, sonically altered both destructively and non-destructively, and converted to stereo space through the application of morphable convolution body responses, all within the EaganMatrix module. All external control is through control voltage input from third party sources, documented in the signal flow diagram on the left of the video."

Continuum voice on the Onde

video upload by La Voix Du Luthier

"Short demonstration of a user defined audio analysis played from a Continuum on an Onde from La Voix du Luthier (audio recording: you can hear the friction noise on the Continuum surface ;-) ).

The original audio sample that was analyzed was kindly provided by Deep Forest (can you guess what song it is coming from ?). It was analyzed with the tools we are currently working on at Haken Audio (demonstrated at last Superbooth) and played realtime as an additive set by the Eagan Matrix (synth engine of the Continuum, also shared with Expressive-E Osmose). Only a very small part of the analysis is used here.

The left hand (that you barely can see) is on an Osmose...

https://www.hakenaudio.com
https://www.la-voix-du-luthier.com"