HARMONICA?

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• Maddcow

  April 2016 edited 4:14AM

  I'd certainly buy this if SM ever released it.
• Kobir

  April 2016 edited 4:14AM

  Me too. SM Chromatic harmonica would be amazing to have in my toolkit.
• MSchnell

  April 2016 edited 4:14AM

  Do you think of this:
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter-tuned_harmonica#Extra-reed_harmonicas
  
  
  
  or maybe this:
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodica
  
  
  
  We (band) just are practicing a song by Sting that features a Solo supposedly done by a chromatic harmonica. We plan using a (real) soprano sax for this, but a virtual harmonica would be nice, as well.
  
  
  
  Anyway, a Harmonica or Melodica can do chords. So playing with a keyboard plus Breath controller seems very appropriate, and so I feel nudged to contribute . As I can't (seriously) play the harmonica (even though I seem too remember that a chromatic one is sitting somewhere on some shelf), I'm no expert at all, but I'd like to say that I suppose a decent algorithm to handle chords would be critical.
  
  
  
  -Michael
• nickystudio

  June 2017 edited 4:14AM

  That would be awesome !!!
• dickbarbour

  June 2017 edited 4:14AM

  MSchnell wrote: Do you think of this:
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter-tuned_harmonica#Extra-reed_harmonicas
  
  
  
  or maybe this:
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodica
  
  
  
  We (band) just are practicing a song by Sting that features a Solo supposedly done by a chromatic harmonica. We plan using a (real) soprano sax for this, but a virtual harmonica would be nice, as well.
  
  
  
  Anyway, a Harmonica or Melodica can do chords. So playing with a keyboard plus Breath controller seems very appropriate, and so I feel nudged to contribute . As I can't (seriously) play the harmonica (even though I seem too remember that a chromatic one is sitting somewhere on some shelf), I'm no expert at all, but I'd like to say that I suppose a decent algorithm to handle chords would be critical.
  
  
  
  -Michael
  
  No reason why you couldn't use midiChords to provide the chords even if they weren't built in, so you could use a windcontroller or keyboard playing single notes. I think the hardest thing for SM to provide would be a way to get realistic in/out breath effects.
• MSchnell

  June 2017 edited 4:14AM

  SampleModeling is excellent in doing software that provides realistic in/out breath effects. So no need to worry .
  
  
  
  The chords (multiple simultaneous tones) might offer a different challenge.
  
  
  
  Physically, multiple reeds closely together being blown by the same source of wind, will do some intermodulation, as the wind pressure for one reed is not steady but modulated by the other reeds.
  
  
  
  Moreover with the blues harp, only certain types of chords can be produced and needs to be automatically converted from the midi notes. E.g. the original instrument eve can't do real single line melodies, you always have intermediate "chords". The chromatic button needs dedicated attention as well with the notes selection (the virtual button position needs to be automatically detected from the pressed keyboard notes and creates "wrong" intermediate notes), as with the special attack and "slide" it produces. Moreover doing the typical extremely close and "nasty" Microphone sound an the hand position "wahwa" modulation will be "interesting".
  
  
  
  -Michael