Introducing K-Bow

violinist Julia Ogrydziak introduces the KBow by Keith McMillen Instruments.
visit us at http://www.keithmcmillen.com/kbow

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Keith McMillen
• K-Bow
• violin
• midi
• string
• controller
• sensor
• bluetooth

[amatiplayer]

I'd be concerned about all the extra weight at the frog - must make fast, gritty pieces a bit more difficult to control, if not completely upsetting the balance of the bow entirely.

[KeithMcMillen]

@amatiplayer In developing K-Bow, much care was put into making it feel and respond like a traditional bow. You can take it from Jeffrey Zeigler of Kronos who says, "The bow itself has the feel and balance of a fine bow, and the emitter attaches below the finger board in a completely noninvasive fashion. One literally has the power to control and manipulate sound at their finger tips with virtually no disruption to the technical act of playing their instrument."

[ORUPRANKSTAZ]

0:36

Is this horrid aliasing intentional?

[KeithMcMillen]

@ORUPRANKSTAZ intentional yes, aliasing no...

It's a pitch shifting effect that's being modulated by the position of the bow (specifically, the length of the bow running through a stepwise lookup table to change the size of the shift). make sense?

[ORUPRANKSTAZ]

@KeithMcMillen

Gotcha. Thanks. :)

[bbjmm]

delay and reverb....and stop when up...

[SteveBrownOfficial]

Brilliant.

[StephaneGrappelli]

wtf??