ewi and growl
Hi everybody, I´m new at this forum, and had been using the trumpet for about a month, and I´m very happy with it. Since I´m a sax player myself, I only bought the trumpet, I already have a decent sax around!
As a sax player, I trend to use the trumpet software, coupled with my akai ewi, in a very wind player fashion. I mean, no keyswichts, and no modulation wheel for the vibrato, no premade fallouts, but real note by note ones. That helps me to make the thing more alive, more sensitive. My vibrato stars at the deep I want and evolves as I want it to, simply by bitting the mouthpiece, and my falls are just at the volume I would play them with my real sax, by just fingering them and changing the air pressure. So I´m quite happy with the trumpet, but... What about the growl?
I own the akai ewi 4000 for about a year now, and the only thing I like from its internal sounds is the ability to make them growl, by singing/humming/screaming on its mouthpiece as I play. It´s very similar to the growl on the sax, it can change from subtle to extreme, and I like it. Unfortunetly that´s something I can´t do when I´m playing the trumpet software. I have asigned the growl to a controler, but it is very unfunny to use it, and doesn´t sound very realistic at all. I don´t know if it is possible to get the natural growl playing technique to sound somehow. Assigning the volume to the mouthpiece sensor does only change the volume, not the sound itself.
If not I would like to suggest to the developers of these instruments to try to achieve it, if possible. The inteligent and moderate use of the growl is part of what makes a real solo become something exciting, personal and original, just like vibrato.
That´s all, sorry about the long writing!
As a sax player, I trend to use the trumpet software, coupled with my akai ewi, in a very wind player fashion. I mean, no keyswichts, and no modulation wheel for the vibrato, no premade fallouts, but real note by note ones. That helps me to make the thing more alive, more sensitive. My vibrato stars at the deep I want and evolves as I want it to, simply by bitting the mouthpiece, and my falls are just at the volume I would play them with my real sax, by just fingering them and changing the air pressure. So I´m quite happy with the trumpet, but... What about the growl?
I own the akai ewi 4000 for about a year now, and the only thing I like from its internal sounds is the ability to make them growl, by singing/humming/screaming on its mouthpiece as I play. It´s very similar to the growl on the sax, it can change from subtle to extreme, and I like it. Unfortunetly that´s something I can´t do when I´m playing the trumpet software. I have asigned the growl to a controler, but it is very unfunny to use it, and doesn´t sound very realistic at all. I don´t know if it is possible to get the natural growl playing technique to sound somehow. Assigning the volume to the mouthpiece sensor does only change the volume, not the sound itself.
If not I would like to suggest to the developers of these instruments to try to achieve it, if possible. The inteligent and moderate use of the growl is part of what makes a real solo become something exciting, personal and original, just like vibrato.
That´s all, sorry about the long writing!