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I just had a go with the new illuminator agent and a few things occurred to me that I wanted to share.

"How can I make the tonics green as they were in 2.0.36?" or the like is probably something everyone who is trying the new factory setups and the illuminator is asking themselves. After reading the wiki I think this is not the purpose of this agent. This should be made more obvious.

I don't really see a *practical* difference between musical layout and physical layout - at least for this agent. For the physical and musical lights to be different you would actually have to change the order of the keys inside course or the ordering of the courses. Sure, in this case, physical lights stay where they are and musical lights move with there respective key. But that's a quite big change of a setup. Changing the position of your tonics (when you change scale for example) on the other hand is something that can happen quite frequently - and something that I feel deserves the wording 'musical' more.

When using choose mode, it would be really helpful to show the currently active lights. At the moment the keyboard goes dark when choosing lights. Counting keys is not fun and it's easy to make mistakes. The currently active lights would help a lot to pick the correct keys.

You got geometry wrong. I noticed this during the devcon as well. Internally rows are along the long axis and columns are along the short axis. But when talking to the other attendees we always referred to the keys the other way around. I think this comes from when you hold the instrument the long axis is vertical, so people call it column, and the short is horizontal, ergo row. But when you developed it you probably put it on a table in front of you. There the short axis is vertical and the long is horizontal.
Anyway, what I want to say is, you shouldn't fight human nature. People intuitively think of columns as downwards. If I am wrong, people, please say so. Otherwise, Eigenlabs, please adjust your manuals and belcanto accordingly.
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Stefan

Hi Stefan, I've mentioned the row vs. column thing before, and I agree with you that columns should be the long axis! +1 from me.

+1, the row/column thing also confused me in the notation discussion. Most people will hold the instrument in a way that courses are columns - although the opposite is also thinkable - so perhaps it would be better to speak of "short key line" and "long key line"? (Should work as long as there are no n*n sized keyboards ;) )

The tonic lights come from the scaler agent - in workbench you can wire the scaler's light output back to the keygroup's light input and the tonics will light green again.

The illuminator agent works the same way - hook up its light output to the keygroup's light input (or diretly to the keyboard agent). It won't do anything until you set the keymap, which is described on the wiki : http://www.eigenlabs.com/wiki/2.0/Illuminator/

I think you can add ins and outs to the gateways - expand the rig gateway and on the far right of the section called 'inputs' there will be a (very small!) button that you can click to add a new input. If you create an input inside the rig, it will appear as an output on the outside, and vice-versa, so you need to make a path out of the rig (so an input inside, and an output outside) and connect the scaler's light output to the rig gateway, then outside the rig connect the new output to the light input on a keygroup.

FWIW, the rig gateways in the alpha factory 1 have the light in/out and it is connected internally.

You need to connect it (externally) to the light output in the matching section of the keygroup (eg: audio unit 1 rig ---> audio unit 1 light output

The destination is well burried

Can someone make a video of what you can do with this new module? Being able to control the lights is one of the things I am most interested in on the Eigenharp... that said, I am still eons away from affording one

wow that was quick! thanks, it is exactly the feature i am looking for

Spotted that one too :-) It's a nice example of why the early access to, and feedback during, the experimental releases is worthwhile.

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Clever idea