TEC Breath and Bite Controller
I got it couple of days ago to use with The Flutes.
It's pricey, but worth every dollar.
It's a new world comparing to playing a keyboard or
entering notes in piano roll and "tampering with evidence".
There is a long road ahead to synchronize my keyboard playing and tongued notes, and to learn how to produce double tonguing or a flutter. But I can see and hear it's possible!
I loaded default Breath Controller template and spent a lot of time figuring out why my light blowing didn't produce any sound. That's because I accidently moved Expression Curve slider to the very right :oops:
I'm a musician in my past and a programmer at present.
So I started testing different settings of the slider.
Here is a table that represents curve and corresponding threshold below which there is no sound.
Expression
Curve
Lin 0 Minimum CC2 value = 5
Ln 0.1 Minimum CC2 value = 5
Ln 0.2 Minimum CC2 value = 6
Ln 0.3 Minimum CC2 value = 6
Ln 0.4 Minimum CC2 value = 7
Lg 0.5 Minimum CC2 value = 8
Lg 0.6 Minimum CC2 value = 10
Lg 0.7 Minimum CC2 value = 13
Lg 0.8 Minimum CC2 value = 17
Lg 0.9 Minimum CC2 value = 26
Log 1 Minimum CC2 value = 42
Update to v1.2.1 didn't change the picture.
Question to SWAM team.
Is it possible to change (in the future) first setting Lin 0 to Minimum CC2 value = 1? This way beginning and ending of the note will be smoother.
It's not a big deal, just don't want my weak breathing to get wasted
Thank you,
Slava
It's pricey, but worth every dollar.
It's a new world comparing to playing a keyboard or
entering notes in piano roll and "tampering with evidence".
There is a long road ahead to synchronize my keyboard playing and tongued notes, and to learn how to produce double tonguing or a flutter. But I can see and hear it's possible!
I loaded default Breath Controller template and spent a lot of time figuring out why my light blowing didn't produce any sound. That's because I accidently moved Expression Curve slider to the very right :oops:
I'm a musician in my past and a programmer at present.
So I started testing different settings of the slider.
Here is a table that represents curve and corresponding threshold below which there is no sound.
Expression
Curve
Lin 0 Minimum CC2 value = 5
Ln 0.1 Minimum CC2 value = 5
Ln 0.2 Minimum CC2 value = 6
Ln 0.3 Minimum CC2 value = 6
Ln 0.4 Minimum CC2 value = 7
Lg 0.5 Minimum CC2 value = 8
Lg 0.6 Minimum CC2 value = 10
Lg 0.7 Minimum CC2 value = 13
Lg 0.8 Minimum CC2 value = 17
Lg 0.9 Minimum CC2 value = 26
Log 1 Minimum CC2 value = 42
Update to v1.2.1 didn't change the picture.
Question to SWAM team.
Is it possible to change (in the future) first setting Lin 0 to Minimum CC2 value = 1? This way beginning and ending of the note will be smoother.
It's not a big deal, just don't want my weak breathing to get wasted
Thank you,
Slava
Comments
AFAIU it comes with a PC software driver, that allows to map and shape he CC output so that it should suite with virtually any software instrument and playing preference.
In fact at best software instruments should accept "fine" (14 bit) CC values. -> http://www.blitter.com/~russtopia/MIDI/~jglatt/tech/midispec/ctllist.htm . So smoothness should not be a problem at all any more. (e.g: Breath Controller using CC 2 and CC 34 together). I looked at the PDF on the TEC website and saw that the BBC in fact does output this: 14 Bits: 0.. 16,383 .
Please keep us posted....
-Michael.
IMHO it would be very appropriate for both SWAM and BBC to support 14 bits via CC 34 (and friends)
I understand that not even a configuration option is necessary for this. If the sender sends CC34, the receiver can happily ignore it (no latency problem at all, as it's just inside the PC). If the sender does not send it, a receiver that is enabled to use it would just assume a preset default (e.g. 64) and work a it does right now.
-Michael (a programmer in the past and a Musician now
Please have a look here:
http://www.samplemodeling.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=973&p=4903#p4903
Best,
Emanuele
Samplemodeling/SWAM team