[LAU] Pianoteq goes Organteq

[Bob van der Poel]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:36 AM, David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> wrote:

> Bob van der Poel <bob at mellowood.ca> writes:
>
> > Monophonic Bach isn't all bad. Remember, the cello concerto (one of
> > the most beautiful pieces ever written) is, mostly, monophonic :)
>
> A cello concerto would hardly be monophonic, but I cannot think of any
> from "the" Bach (J.S.).  Are you thinking of the cello suites?
>
> Hand hits forehead ... of course I meant the cello suites. Yeah, a
monophonic concerto would be ... ummm .. interesting???

I imagine they would give a breath controller (or actual wind
> instrument) a run for their money.  I play them on chromatic button
> accordion (where a hand span of two octaves is still comfortable) and
> they are a good reach.  I'd imagine them to involve a lot of jumping
> around on a piano keyboard, and a strenuous mess on wind instruments
> (where broken chords/phrases over large intervals like that require much
> more frequent overblowing switches than usual).
>

I've tried to play a few transcriptions on saxophone. And, listened to a
few as well. I certainly sound awful trying it. And folks much better than
I am don't sound all that great either. Mind you, I'm using to recordings
of spectacular cellists playing it :)


> > But, I figured that the breath controller CC would not be
> > supported. But, since it's just software, maybe in a future release?
>
> What do you _want_ it to do?  Chances are that one can rig something up
> that does it outside of Aeolus.
>
> I don't really have the time these days to do much with it. More of a
"that's interesting" question.

--
> David Kastrup
>



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