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I've been playing my Eigenharp Tau happily for nearly a week now, learning the basics and getting the feel for the instrument. I still absolutely love it, but now I'd like to expand my instrument base a bit by adding some VSTs. I've searched around the 'net, but I can't manage to find any information about adding VSTs to the Tau (there are tutorials for the Alpha and Pico). I'd like to start by just adding Halion Sonic SE. From there I can add the rest on my own.

To start off, I can't seem to locate Halion's .dll to add to the Plugin Scanner of EigenD. I've managed to locate .dlls for other VSTs I have, but they won't load on my instrument and I have no way of opening up the plugin window (it doesn't show up in the Window bar) in EigenD.

I'm likely overlooking something huge here (being new and all). Can someone please lend me a hand?

Thanks!
Ace

I selected the pathways for the dlls that I want to use and then clicked scan. The software says that they are good plugins, but I don't know how to access them past that, on Tau or EigenD.

Ace

Moreno,

Thanks a ton for the help. All of the new terminology is making my head spin, but with your help I sorted it out. I'm now happily selecting VSTs! One last question...where can I find Halion Sonic SE's plugin on my computer? I already have it installed but cannot find the .dll.

Thanks a ton!

Ace

Also search the net for superwavep8 (free) and trance-pro (not free but demo)
They both work with ED
Moreno

Well, mine is in Programfiles x86/Cakewalk/vstplugins, not sure where your is cause the rest i have given a VST dir on another drive....
As for the percussion keys and the sampler, i don't use them much and i'm new myself, so the rest has to jump in on this one.
Btw, no problem, i know my self how frustrating was searching my way in the new instrument the first days... glad i could give 'some' help in my 'humble noobiness' anyway, i have the thing only two months now, so, sometimes, i don't know where i'm talking about my self ;-)
take care
Moreno

Personally, i'm new in DAW land too so... but i had an idea that the '2' on one of my VST directories wasn't there for nothing :-) ... so there are also vst3's around... nice to know!
Enough problems understanding which (32 or 64 bit) are install/usable and which not causeEigenD is 32 bit, i believe?!.
After adding all my vst path's i have:
Alchemy
Minimoog V Original
Minimoog vOriginalFX
Trance pro (demo)
Guitar Rig 4
Reaktor 5
SuperwaveP8
Omnisphere
StylusRMX
Trillian
U-HE Diva
.. all working except, as i said, HalionOne, which may work reinstalling it 'cause is with Cubase 5 in my case so i think it's a normal vst.

Moreno

Thanks for all of the suggestions!

Moreno, I managed to find it after a quick search through the Eigenlabs folder in my Program Files (x86) directory. It's back up and running now! I know exactly the feeling of "noobiness" and I'm glad that there are people who are kind enough to tolerate such people.

Geert and Randy, thank you for the heads-up. Next on my Tau agenda is syncing up with Cuabse 6 and exploring the versatility of editing parameters after-the-fact. I'm very glad that this was touched upon here, as it saved me a ton of trouble and hair-tearing. Since I couldn't get Halion Sonic SE to cooperate, I installed Synth1, an oldie, but a wonderful free VST nonetheless with 900+ voices. Thanks!

Since Moreno seems stumped on the front of adding a VST to Sampler 3, can either of you shed some light on this? I'd just like to have the drum VST that I added to Cubase available for 'harping.

Thanks to all of you!
Ace

Ace, I'm not sure what you're trying to do with 'adding a VST to Sampler 3'. Do you mean that you want to replace the sampler instrument by a VST instrument? That's not an easy feat and quite advanced topic, largely facilitated by the use of Workbench. You're probably best off using the Audio Unit/VST 3 & 4 instruments on the percussion keys instead.

Geert

Thanks very much Ace, i overlooked those two knobs down there, thinking "i'm not ready to WRITE anything yet" forgot the OPT all together, he he... to many knobs, to many keys, to much information... that 'grey matter' of mine starts turning purple.
Actually i knew that one, somewhere back of my head but as i said, don't use the perc.keys much, primarily 'cause have more latency problems when i use them.
Btw, a tip: try to slide from key to key... having also a Chapman Stick and having used the tap-pluck technique, sometimes i find myself even plucking the keys, hi hi, no strings here, i'm afraid, so impossible :-), but i, personally, like to do that very much... slide man, slide!

Moreno