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I must say I'm really liking the new seminars. I'm about half-way through watching the first seminar on tweaking the samplers using Belcanto.

First question, could the conversations in the IRC channel be captured for those of us who can't attend the seminars at the time? And if not, could we at least get the list of belcanto strings?

Secondly, I've been trying to follow the instructions. I'm running 1.1.20, and playing a pico. I find that
sampler 1 scaler hey
fails, but (having checked out the factory scripts)
all scaler hey all k bend range to 12 set
works. What am I doing wrong?

Also, watching the recent Eigenharp demos has prompted some more questions:

How do you create soundfonts? Were the samplers used to control the drum sequence (or was it via midi?). In the pico example the strip controller was used to control different effect depending on the direction of movement. How was that done?

D

Thanks Alistair! Got the scaler (and other) commands to work as I'd expect.

Why is there different syntax for alpha & pico?

Yeah, would be good to hear more about this and also whether there are plans to bring the two into line?

Dunc

I think they are going to be weekly, Thursdays 7-8 for Alpha, maybe Wednesday at the same time for Pico. The first seminar was broadcast on www.justin.tv - you can search for 'eigenharp' to find the channel.

We're still experimenting with the format - the seminar last week was not broadly announced as it was the first semi public experiment. We intend to start holding them every week as soon as we've got the kinks out, and if they prove popular. There are still couple of things we have to get properly sorted out, such as being able to vision mix live from the laptop running EigenD's screen.

There's a Wiki section now that we'll be expanding to cover archived seminars and forthcoming sessions.

John

Where is the seminar that went out yesterday about Belcanto? I searched justintv and could only find old ones?

First; thanks for the seminars. They provide a great deal of welcome information.

That said, there have now been a couple of instances where questions have been taken 'off line' to be answered by email. On each occasion, I've thought to myself that the question was interesting and that the answer would be broadly valuable.

I'd like to suggest that, instead of answering individually, it would be great if these questions could be added to the section in the WIKI that documents the individual seminar.

I second you're opinion Garth... and this is my appreciation note for the value of information they represent (still digesting the last one.....).Nice about John stoping by.

Keyman

I've just finished going through belcanto part 2 - now we're cooking with gas! Some great news about Stage, and the secrets of plumbing keygroups.

Don't know what's the theme for next week, but can't someone replace David ?!? Got used to reserve that hour to the seminar

Keyman