H-Pi instruments

All;

I've been asked to forward some good news to the list.
Aaron Hunt's company, H-Pi instruments, is getting ready
to ship some stuff!

http://www.h-pi.com

Here's what Aaron says,

"Tuning Box units are shipping in mid March and currently I
only have a few of them which are already marked for sale.
More will be arriving for early sale at the UK microfest in
early March. I may have a unit available for review by mid
February.
Keyboards aren't shipping until June. I have several
pre-production designed keyboards which work fine but are
not what I will be selling. A review keyboard won't be
available until the end of May at the earliest. Software
demos will be added to the website soon, I hope..."

Check it out!

-Carl

Oh, and Aaron adds that questions should be
sent in directly at

http://www.h-pi.com/contact.html

-Carl

Aaron adds:

""
MegaScore is currently holding at beta, development to resume after
Vista and OSX 10.5 deliver. Again, demos should be available soon.

All H-Pi products use dynamic channel allocation for pitch bends,
including a Sustain Pedal algorithm, with polyphony assignable through
channel selector switches, currently limited to 16 voices by MIDI
hardware/software (forthcoming MIDI standards will dispense with this
limitation). The system is US patented and works with all GM
equipment*
(see GM requirements page under Support).

The current TPX series keyboards use positive click tactile contact
systems having a key travel of 0.5 mm.""

-Carl

Finally, microtonal hardware...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Lumma" <clumma@yahoo.com>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 10 Ocak 2007 �ar�amba 0:59
Subject: [tuning] Re: H-Pi instruments

> Aaron adds:
>
> ""
> MegaScore is currently holding at beta, development to resume after
> Vista and OSX 10.5 deliver. Again, demos should be available soon.
>
> All H-Pi products use dynamic channel allocation for pitch bends,
> including a Sustain Pedal algorithm, with polyphony assignable through
> channel selector switches, currently limited to 16 voices by MIDI
> hardware/software (forthcoming MIDI standards will dispense with this
> limitation). The system is US patented and works with all GM
> equipment*
> (see GM requirements page under Support).
>
> The current TPX series keyboards use positive click tactile contact
> systems having a key travel of 0.5 mm.""
>
> -Carl
>
>
>

I was thinking recently, that the issue with a global microtonal interface
seems to be stemming from the combination of varied surface depression (key
velocity), varied touch location (key), and custom gradation (consecutive
intervals). With microtonality, there is no one method to represent the
plethora of tunings available up to one's satisfaction, so the matter
ultimately rests with a flexible setting.

Now, come to consider, the technology for all this is available. Take, for
instance, LCD touch-screens. I am imagining a setup, where the clavier
window of, say, SCALA is opened with a particular tuning selected... let the
screen be manufactured in dimensions we are accustomed to... since the
design allows any keyboard configuration on the fly, all that matters is
multi-touch polyphony and z-axis sensitivity.

Here is how it could be done:

http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/

Amazing, no?

Oz.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Lumma" <clumma@yahoo.com>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 10 Ocak 2007 �ar�amba 0:59
Subject: [tuning] Re: H-Pi instruments

> Aaron adds:
>
> ""
> MegaScore is currently holding at beta, development to resume after
> Vista and OSX 10.5 deliver. Again, demos should be available soon.
>
> All H-Pi products use dynamic channel allocation for pitch bends,
> including a Sustain Pedal algorithm, with polyphony assignable through
> channel selector switches, currently limited to 16 voices by MIDI
> hardware/software (forthcoming MIDI standards will dispense with this
> limitation). The system is US patented and works with all GM
> equipment*
> (see GM requirements page under Support).
>
> The current TPX series keyboards use positive click tactile contact
> systems having a key travel of 0.5 mm.""
>
> -Carl
>
>
>
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