   This page traces the early stages of development of the “HexApp” – a hybrid acoustic-digital prototype of an instrument for experimental performance practice.
The HexApp Project:
Recent look (2024) of the GUI of the HexApp:
Design of a physical-virtual polyphonic/multi input-output instrument for live electronics based on real time digital audio processing.
The core of the project is the multi channel digital processing/sound transformation system
the Development of a poly processing tool for improvisation based on the use of hexaphonic pickup is the main goal of the project.
Here one can see the steps taken in the development of the project!
Scroll down to track it from the beginning!
Here is a recent (2024) performance with the hexapp:
and some early demos:
Hexaphonic guitar article 2024
Hexaphonic guitar article 2017
An early look of the GUI of the real-time DSP environment
The early setup (2016)
design of the Hexaphonic Guitar
design of the 6 channel preamp
Lex van den Broek
……with the great help of…..
……created by me…..
The 6 channel preamp….
Time for action!
An important step in the beginning – the “surgery”!
Almost the entire setup!
Almost…
What is the hexaphonic pickup?
A hexaphonic guitar pickup (sometimes called a divided pickup) is a pickup with six outputs (one for each string on the guitar). Polyphonic pickups are pickups with multiple outputs of any number, including heptaphonic pickups for seven-stringed guitars, quadraphonic pickups for bass, and any other possibility.
….Ubertar polyphonic pickups are typically wired to a multi-pin output (7 or 13 pin) and connected via a cable to a breakout box with one 1/4″ output jack per string. A breakout box can also be set up with additional stereo outputs and a left/right switch for each string. http://www.ubertar.com/
What is in there?
hexaphonic pickup, breakout box – 7 pin in to 6 1/4 inch jack out , 7 pin cable
The Pandora’s box!
(Just attempt to joke about all the challenges in front of me)
The beginning!
My Silent Yamaha guitar is about to be surgically modified!
