bitKlavier

Published by: Dan Trueman
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“The études, some fast and virtuosic, others spare and introspective, unfolded to beautiful and haunting effect in a haze of pitch-bending, echoes, distorted rhythms and eerie timbres.”
—The New York Times, about the Nostalgic Synchronic Etudes, made with bitKlavier
bitKlavier is the software that drives the "prepared digital piano;" it has been used by a number of composers for creating new music, and has been featured in performances around the world.
Like the prepared piano, the "prepared digital piano" feels just like a piano under the hands and often sounds like one, but it is full of surprises; instead of bolts and screws stuck between the piano strings, virtual machines of various sorts adorn the virtual strings of the digital piano, transforming it into an instrument that pushes back, sometimes like a metronome, other times like a recording played backwards. The virtual strings also tighten and loosen on the fly, dynamically tuning in response to what is played.
To begin, experiment with the included galleries, many of which are from existing pieces (the Nostalgic Synchronic Etudes by Dan Trueman, and the Mikroetudes, a collection of small pieces by various composers), others are examples for exploring the various types of digital preparations. Work with the on-screen keyboards, or hook up a USB-MIDI keyboard using a Lighting-USB adaptor and play with a full-sized keyboard.
There are a range of "preparations," including:
1. Synchronic: "metronomes" of various sorts that respond to your playing.
2. Nostalgic: reverse piano, synced to the synchronic preparations or driven by the length of the notes that you play.
3. Tuning: various tuning systems, including some that change under your hands as you play.
4. Direct: modify the direct sound of the piano itself in various ways.
5. Blendrónic: beat programmed delays that process other preparations.
These preparations can change under your hands in various ways, using Modifications attached to Preparations and triggered by Keymaps, or by using Pianos, which change the entire instrument instantaneously.
Created by Dan Trueman and Mike Mulshine at Princeton University, with support from Princeton's Music Department, Center for the Digital Humanities and Council on Science and Technology, as well as the American Council of Learned Societies.
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By far my favorite non working app

DRKPHK on

United States

I loved this so much now I dream it will work again Some day

Love it!

Codowlsky Polopumus on

United States

Can’t believe I didn’t find it any sooner! Would love to see this quirky little gem available as AUV3 at some point so we can incorporate it into the iOS ecosystem. Beautiful nonetheless!

A new era for keyboard playing

Adam Sliwinski on

United States

I have been using this app since it was first invented, and it has changed the way I make music. It is so easy to change settings and immediately hear the consequences that it becomes addictive! Musicians who aren’t accustomed to thinking of themselves as composers will find themselves creating spontaneously and potentially spending hours tinkering with them. In one session, I got carried away with seeing if I could build an accurate machine to perform Reich's piano phase just triggering one note (I could), while in another I set different octaves of the keyboard to trigger metronomes at different tempi and improvised with it.

App issue- help?

Bubba Crumrine on

United States

I've been using this app for months and now in all patches, lite or medium mode, a glitch/ pulse sound persists at around 117 bpm, making the app unplayable. Tutorials and videos do not address. Running 10.2.1 on iPad mini 2. Reinstalled several times. Uninstalled other apps. Plenty of storage left. Any known issues? Help? Recording a piece with this app in 3 months and without a fix I'll need to scrap the work....

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