Haken Audio Continuum full size

Designed by Dr. Lippold Haken and manufactured by Haken Audio, the Continuum Fingerboard is a musical instrument that allows unprecedented realtime performance control. With a greater pitch range than a traditional 88 note Midi keyboard, the Continuum offers realtime continuous control in three dimensions for every finger that is placed on the playing surface.

Included internally is a custom designed user programmable synthesizer, specifically programmed to take advantage of the subtle and dramatic expressive musical possibilities of the Continuum.

Features

• Three dimensional polyphonic playing surface.
   
• Internal sound generator specifically designed to take advantage of the expressive possibilities of the Continuum with up to 32 voice polyphony. Programmable via the Continuum Editor program.
   
• Highly optimized 16 voice Midi data output.
   
• Pitch resolution allows for seamless polyphonic glissandi and the ability to microtune intervals on the fly.
   
• Ultra-fast performance response regardless of polyphony.
   
• Configurable via surface interaction, external computer editor, or Midi input.
   
• Advanced communication to DSP hardware from Symbolic Sound Corporation.
   
• Internal pitch processing allows for optionally rounding finger positions to equal temperament, just, and user definable scales. This rounding is intelligent, accurately preserving vibrato and glissandi effects.
   
• Pitch processing allows for scalable and non-linear pitch mappings of the Continuum surface.
• Innovative dual pedal support, including "dynamic" sustain and sostenuto, allowing for continuous depth control of sustained notes.
   
• Mono modes which allow the user to use multiple fingers to step, retrigger, or glide between note ranges.
   
• Adjustable pitchbend range tailors the Continuum's response to your Midi sound device.
   
• Pressure and front-to-back can be configured for any Midi continuous controller message.
   
• Direct integration with the Continuum Voltage Converter (CVC) for control of analog synthesizers. Each of the CVC's 16 control voltages has a user programmable formula.
   
• Configurable Midi split for playing surface zone setups.

Configuration

The Continuum can be configured via surface interaction, Midi or via the Continuum Editor. A Configuration strip is supplied with every Continuum to aid the player in remembering configuration options that are available from the playing surface. The Continuum Editor is a free cross-platform application that greatly enhances the Continuum Fingerboard programming experience.

check: http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/

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small 3750 €

BIG XL 5700 €