Continuum (instrument)
The Continuum Fingerboard or Haken Continuum is a music performance controller 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.
The Continuum Fingerboard was initially developed over the period of 1990 to 2000 at the CERL Sound Group at the University of Illinois to control sound-producing algorithms on the Platypus audio signal processor and the Kyma/Capybara workstation.
In 2002, the first commercial version of the Continuum Fingerboard used IEEE-1394 (FireWire) or MIDI connections to control a Kyma sound design workstation or a MIDI synthesizer module. Later versions added a control voltage option to permit control of analog modular synthesizers.
The most recent model can generate audio directly, but it is still primarily designed to be a MIDI controller (the IEEE-1394 connection that was present on earlier models has been removed).
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