Hi Steve
Well, you sound like the perfect candidate for the Workbench software. It was originally the main GUI for EigenD, so its quite complete, if rather lacking in cosmetics. We changed tack very rapidly (we're trying hard to listen to our customers here) after Robin Bigwood, who reviewed it for Sound On Sound, reviewed the Alpha. Robin is a really nice chap, and very technically able as well as being a seriously good musician (one of the UK's best harpsichord players). When he first encountered the Workbench he was, to put it mildly, astonished. His first reaction, in week one, was unprintable (well, not really, he's very polite, but you know what I mean). Then, after a lesson from Dave and some struggle he got it. He told us he completely understood its power and what we meant by it, but that we would really struggle to communicate that to the wider world. If you imagine all the issues people are having with the new browser right now, but mulitplied by 100, you get close. It is very radical, an environment driven by a pseudo natural language command language spoken by playing note sequences that define words. Its hard to learn, and awesome when mastered, and enables one to do things in seconds, live, that just could never be done by a GUI. Sharp sharp learning curve though. And we have precisely zero tutorial information ready for it, hence keeping it out of the way until next year. It really is the heart of the Eigenharp though.
If you're interested, we're getting together a hardcore group of Eigenharp users to start using it help us evolve the tuition materials early next year, and try to make the learning curve rather gentler. Let me know if you fancy having a go.
John
UK
