Haken Continuum Keyboard

The most recent firmware for the continuum fingerboard can be found here.

Haken continuum keyboard.

And the degree of control is something special. And haken audio has been a boutique maker pushing new ways of playing for years including with mpe on their continuum. The continuum fingerboard or haken continuum is a music performance controller and synthesizer developed by lippold haken a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university of illinois and sold by haken audio located in champaign illinois. Lippold haken started development over 35 years ago on what was to become the modern continuum fingerboard.

Haken audio constantly seeks to optimize the continuum fingerboard s performance and functionality. Lippold haken and manufactured by haken audio the continuum fingerboard is a musical instrument that allows unprecedented real time performance control. The continuum may look arcane in photos but feeling it is a unique experience. Today the continuum has established itself as the premier multidimensional controller surface ever designed.

In order to get the most out of it you need to learn how to play it. The continuumini s big brother. The continuum editor must be running it must have the midi keyboard as its extdevice input the keyboard must transmit on midi channel 1 and the midi routing in the continuum must pass midi in to midi out. To connect both a midi keyboard and continuum fingerboard to kyma at the same time.

The continuum is a completely unique instrument design derived more from the fretboard of a fretless stringed instrument than from a piano keyboard. The same goes for the eaganmatrix synthesizer which is steadily updated with new sound processors. The continuum fingerboard was initially developed from 1983 to 1998 at the cerl sound group at the university of illinois to control. The ribbon feels luxurious it s actually soft fabric.

When lippold haken came up with the design for the continuum fingerboard in the early 1980s his goal was to take the traditional keyboard synthesizer and make it much more expressive and flexible.