French Horn and Tuba

dstongdstong
edited April 2014 in Windcontrollers
The new French Horn and Tuba are absolutely wonderful for EWI wind controllers.



The French Horns have a gorgeous, silky sound when played softly with low breath volume and gentle attack, but produce fantastic harmonic rich strident tones with strong attacks and higher air pressure.



The Tuba is also excellent with superb responsiveness and dynamic range.



They both work beautifully right out of the box as soon as you choose the Wind Controller in place of Keyboard.



The French Horn has an especially excellent legato performance and as I've said before, a gorgeous silky smooth sound. When I sit down to play, I can barely stop and go back to work on other things.



It is all I could have asked for and I recommend it without reservations.



Thanks,



Dan

Comments

  • Rabbit531Rabbit531
    edited 1:34PM
    What a simple and elegant review. Makes me want to run out an buy a USB controller!



    Del
  • dstongdstong
    edited 1:34PM
    Rabbit531,



    Thanks for you kind words.



    You can hear the French Horn played on EWI-USB demo's I just uploaded. Look for it in the Forum's Use Demo section.



    Dan
  • CasiquireCasiquire
    edited 1:34PM
    Sure, I'll be the annoying guy to ressurecta year-and-a-half old thread! I'm loving the Yamana WX5 with SM horns and tuba. My one question about these instruments is, what's the best way to use portamento with these instruments? Thanks for any advice!
  • KobirKobir
    edited 1:34PM
    Simplest way is to map portamento to CC 17 or CC 16, which can be mapped to mod wheel down or up.
  • CasiquireCasiquire
    edited 1:34PM
    Thanks Kobir, so I can map the controller so that the modwheel responds to reed pressure, which would allow me to control portamento using bite. That seems like the most natural way while playing since I don't like using too many buttons and sliders while playing. It starts to drain some of the passionate energy from the performance IMO. I lose pitch variation that way but that might not be too big a deal. Thanks!

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