Eigenharp Alpha

• Eigenharp Alpha
• Eigenharp Pro case by Hiscox.
• Product Activation card for website support and tutorial materials.
• Eigenharp standard base station.
• Eigenharp standard base station power cable.
• 6m Alpha to Base Station connecting cable.
• 2m Base Station to computer USB 2.0 connecting cable.
• Eigenlabs laptop/Base Station and cables carry bag.
• Eigenlabs 500Mb USB stick with the latest version of EigenD software for Mac and Windows 7.
• Eigenlabs DVD with EigenD support materials including all media and sound files.

Keys

• 133 keys in all.
• 120 keys on the main keyboard.
• 12 percussion keys on the lower part of the instrument.
• Plus one mute key.

Key Properties:

• Sampled at 2000 samples/second, per key.
• 10 bit (1024 values) resolution.
• Sensitive to direct pressure and to lateral pressure in both directions.

2 Strip Controllers:

• One on each side of the instrument, 480mm long.
• Sampled at 2000 samples/second per strip.
• 10 bit (1024 values) resolution.

Headphone output:

• 48 kHz sampling rate, 24-bit DAC Sigma-Delta.
• Software programmable volume.
• Mute, soft ramp and zero cross detection for volume adjustment.
• SNR = 94 dB.
• THD < 0.1% at 1 kHz, 30-Ohm load at -3 dBfs.
• Up to 75 mW output on a 3.5 mm mini jack socket.

Microphone input/preamp:

• Balanced input on an industry standard 4 pin LEMO locking connector.
• 24-bit at 96 kHz A/D converter.
• Low noise programmable gain from 10 dB to 45 dB in 1 dB steps.
• Software switchable 48 V phantom power.
• 10 V Electret polarisation power available.
• Noise: EIN (A-weighted) = -110 dBm with 150 Ohm source 20 Hz to 20 kHz @ 40 dB gain. EIN (Un-wtd) = -115 dBm with same conditions as A-weighted.
• 26 dB software switchable input pad.

Recommended uni-directional (cardioid or supercardioid patterns) microphones:

• Audio Technica AT898C, DPA 4080 and DPA 4022.
  Note: Custom wiring for each microphone is required.

Base Station:

• USB 2 interface to host computer.

Floor spike:

• 300 mm retractable floor spike with removable rubber foot.

You can load and play your own Soundfonts, Audio Unit Plugins and Midi instruments with the Eigenharp Alpha. In addition, the Alpha comes with its own native instruments (at present a software model of a Cello, Clarinet and a Synth engine). The Alpha also ships with a collection of loop libraries and several acclaimed instruments from our partners:

• 1500 AIFF format (timestretch and tempo change capable) varied Percussion and Drum loops.
• Sampletekk 'Black Grand Steinway D, sampled at 20+ levels in a 6 Gigabyte set that includes three recordings from dry to highly ambient.
• Sampletekk 'Tubed Rhodes', a multi sampled Rhodes Electric Piano.
• Sampletekk Tubed 'Wurli' electric piano in a Gigabyte multi sample set.
• Camel Audio's Eigenlabs Player version of "Alchemy" - The ultimate sample manipulation synthesizer

• Please see our Software page

Alpha:

• Height 123cm
• Width 8cm (approx)
• Depth 3cm
• Weight 2.64kg

Laptop bag:

• Length 35cm
• Width 48cm
• Depth 20cm
• Weight 1.046kg

Base station:

• Length 16.6cm
• Width 17cm
• Depth 5cm
• Weight 1kg (excluding power supply and cables)
• Weight 1.6kg (including power supply and cables)

Instrument Cable:

• Length 6m
• Weight 380grms