Wind Controller and The Trumpet
I am very impressed with The Trumpet. My question is if anyone that actually plays a windcontroller like the EWI, EVI, MDT etc. has used it with any success.
I'm not a keyboardist so if it doesn't respond well to actual wind controller, ( not breath controller ) then it won't work for me.
I'm not a keyboardist so if it doesn't respond well to actual wind controller, ( not breath controller ) then it won't work for me.
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even with the present trumpet version quite good results (with some workarounds) are possible - as we could hear on some user demos (which we, however, were not allowed to publish). But we are working on an update which will include a wind controler mode.
Available probably in September.
Best
Peter
Of course, everyone seems to feel that their own acoustic instrument has been badly reproduced by prior synth technology. As a Trumpet player, I've always felt that most synth trumpets sounded horrible. The melding of sampling and modeling truly seems like the future as far as realism is concerned.
I applaud your accomplishment with this technology, and look forward to the wind controller version. It may finally be possible to make the Morrison MDT sound like an actual trumpet.
Cheers.
One reason I haven't purchased the MDT is what I really want is modularity... I want to be able to plug and unplug the parts of my controller... to basically build a customized controller.. For example, I might want to use a woodwind style mouthpeice with the mdt style valves.. Things like this.. I would be willing to pay more for modularity and easy upgradability. Basically, I want to make my own wind controller.
This also applies to the software.. I want open source, or at least the ability to run on linux systems. This is more important than you might think... There are a slew of new smart phones coming on to the market which run linux. In particular there is the Neo Freerunner which is marketed toward techies like myself. It's a phone, but it's really a highly portable computer which could double as a tuner or a metronome or whatever I program it to be..
According to moore's law, the computing power of a phone may eventually be sufficient to run "The Trumpet" (if it's not already). If it has no Linux version, then it's usefulness to me goes down considerably.
Free runner's are sold out right now. Their idea was to market to hobbiests the way the first Apple computers were marketed, and it seems to work. I can't think of any reason why it doesn't make sense to take a similar approach to digital music technology markets. I think most people who are deeply interested in synth technology are pioneering hobbyists anyway.
I'm not a keyboardist so if it doesn't respond well to actual wind controller, ( not breath controller ) then it won't work for me.
I learn to play the Akai EWI 4000s, and I found no problems at all with live playing and live MIDI recording. I can even use the glide plate as an additional control parameter to control e.g. CC23 (frullato I think).
I'm a bit surprised to hear that there will be a wind controller Trumpet version. From my view, The Trumpet is perfect as it is, without the need of programming the EWI or Kontakt or the sequencer software like with ordinary samplers.