Continuum Fingerboard

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Continuum Fingerboard
The full-size Continuum Fingerboard
Manufacturer	Lippold Haken
Dates	c. 2002–present
Price	Full size: $5290[1] Half size: $3390
Technical specifications
Polyphony	16 voices
Input/output
External control	MIDI, AES3

The Continuum Fingerboard or Haken Continuum is a music performance controller and synthesizer 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.^[2]

The Continuum Fingerboard was initially developed from 1983 to 1998^[3] at the CERL Sound Group at the University of Illinois, to control sound-producing algorithms on the Platypus audio signal processor^[4] and the Kyma/Capybara workstation.^[5]

In 1999, the first Continuum Fingerboard was commercially sold. Until 2008, the Continuum Fingerboard provided IEEE-1394 (FireWire) connections to control a Kyma sound design workstation, as well as MIDI connections to control a MIDI synthesizer module. More recently, the Continuum Fingerboard generates audio directly in addition to providing MIDI connections for MIDI modules, software synthesizers, and Kyma (the IEEE-1394 connection that was present on earlier models has been removed). An external control voltage generator permits control of analog modular synthesizers.