A package including: Studio Piper, The Technopipes (in black) and the E-MU Xmidi 1x1.
Price: £300
(Ex. VAT)
A package including: Studio Piper, The Technopipes (clear) and the E-MU Xmidi 1x1.
Price: £300
(Ex. VAT)
Studio Piper is a software based bagpipe that, when used with the Technopipes or any MIDI bagpipe, enables you to play high quality studio-sampled Highland pipes, Scottish Smallpipes, Border pipes and even Uilleann pipes. All instruments can be played with your own bagpipe fingering in any key over a two octave range. Each virtual instrument is composed from sound samples played by Fred Morrison on his own pipes.
Price: £75
(Ex. VAT)
The Technopipes is quite simply the best hardware electronic bagpipe on the market. Unsurpassed in reliability, portability and sound quality.
Main Features...
- Highly portable. Fits in your pocket: only 16 x 249 mm (5/8" x 10")
- Contains all the electronics as well as the battery: no extra box to plug in.
- Uses standard 3.5 mm stereo earphones (not included): perfect to play on buses, trains etc. Ideal for the commuter.
- Unforgiving at detecting crossing noise.
- Authentic bagpipes sounds.
- Drones sound with different drone configurations.
- Built-in metronome.
- Adjustable contact sensitivity.
- Pitch adjustable within a two octave range.
- Recording capabilities, with variable playback speed.
- MIDI output (cable included).
- Runs on one standard AAA 1.5V alkaline battery or one AAA 1.2V NiMH Rechargeable battery (not included). Runs for approx. 10 hours on a 1000mAh Rechargeable NiMH battery.
- Touch controls for all settings.
- Please note that battery, case, and earphones are not included.
- 1 year warranty.
Price: £215
(Ex. VAT)
The Technopipes is quite simply the best hardware electronic bagpipe on the market. Unsurpassed in reliability, portability and sound quality.
Main Features...
- Highly portable. Fits in your pocket: only 16 x 249 mm (5/8" x 10")
- Contains all the electronics as well as the battery: no extra box to plug in.
- Uses standard 3.5 mm stereo earphones (not included): perfect to play on buses, trains etc. Ideal for the commuter.
- Unforgiving at detecting crossing noise.
- Authentic bagpipes sounds.
- Drones sound with different drone configurations.
- Built-in metronome.
- Adjustable contact sensitivity.
- Pitch adjustable within a two octave range.
- Recording capabilities, with variable playback speed.
- MIDI output (cable included).
- Runs on one standard AAA 1.5V alkaline battery or one AAA 1.2V NiMH Rechargeable battery (not included). Runs for approx. 10 hours on a 1000mAh Rechargeable NiMH battery.
- Touch controls for all settings.
- Please note that battery, case, and earphones are not included.
- 1 year warranty.
Price: £215
(Ex. VAT)
This cable lets your electronic bagpipe communicate with your computer so you can play Studio Piper and other virtual instruments. E-MU's Xmidi 1x1 is a plug-and-play USB MIDI Interface that adds an ultra-fast MIDI input and output (16 MIDI channels in/out) to your computer. The Xmidi 1x1 is bus-powered for total portability and offers status indicators for input signal, output signal and power.
Features include...
- 1 MIDI in/1 MIDI out.
- USB 1.1.
- USB bus-powered.
- Ultra-fast MIDI response.
- Active-Sensing messages filtered.
- MME, DirectMusic and CoreMIDI supported.
- Multiple device support.
Retail Box Contents...
- E-MU Xmidi 1x1
- Owner's Manual
- E-MU Software/Manual CD-ROM with:
- - Windows XP and x64 Drivers.
- - Owner's Manual PDF.
Dimensions...
The Xmidi 1x1 cable measures 3 feet (0.92 meters) on the USB side and 7 feet (2.1 meters) on the MIDI side.
Minimum system requirements...
Windows:
- Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or greater, Windows XP x64, or Windows Vista.
- Intel or AMD processor - 600MHz or faster.
- 128MB System RAM.
- 1 available USB port.
- CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.
Macintosh:
- Apple® Macintosh® OS X 10.3.9 or greater.
- 450MHz G4 processor or faster.
- 128MB System RAM.
- 1 available USB port.
- CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive (for manual).
Price: £26
(Ex. VAT)
The precursor to the Technopipes. It has no MIDI output so cannot be used with software instruments.
Main Features...
- Fits in your pocket: only 16 x 225 mm (5/8" x 9")
- Uses earphones (not included): therefore perfect to play on buses, trains etc. Ideal for the commuter.
- Natural C and F.
- Pitch alterable.
- Unforgiving at detecting crossing noise.
Designed using state of the art technology...
- Surface mounting
- Technology throughout.
- Touch control for volume.
- Approx. 50 hours of playing without change of batteries.
- Contains all the electronics as well as the batteries: no extra box to plug in
Price: £135
(Ex. VAT)