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.
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Pitch Range (with conventional pitch scaling) |
Nearly 8 octaves (9350 cents) |
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Pitch Resolution (without rounding) |
Better than 1 Cent |
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Maximum Polyphony |
32 simultaneous notes for internal sounds, 16 via Midi |
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Scan Interval |
0.65 ms typical, 0.35 ms minimum |
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Interface |
Midi, headphone, AES3, i2c for CVC |
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Audio Output (Analog) |
24 bit D/A, up to 5.1v p-p, 100 mW power |
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Audio Output (Digital) |
24 bit AES3, 48 or 96 khz sample rate or sync to AES3 input |
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Audio Input (Digital) |
24 bit AES3, sample rates from 32 to 192 khz |
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Power |
50 watts, 110 or 220 vac |
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Continuum Size [length/width/height] |
137/19/7.5 cm (54/7.5/3 in) |
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Regular Case Size [length/width/height] |
150/28/16.5 cm (59/11/6.5 in) |
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Heavy Case Size [length/width/height] |
150/28/20 cm (59/11/8 in) |
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Weight |
10.2 kg (22.5 lbs) |
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Weight with Regular Case |
17 kg (38 lbs) |
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Weight with Heavy Case |
23.3 kg (52 lbs) |
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check: http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/
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small 3750 €
BIG XL 5700 €