11 Dec
2017
11 Dec
'17
7:09 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 10:14 AM, David Kastrup <dak(a)gnu.org> wrote:
Bob van der Poel <bob(a)mellowood.ca> writes:
Well, I found using bellows pressure for Schweller quite unsatisfactory
and switched off pressure sensitivity eventually. I'd expect a breath
controller not to fare better in that regard, and as general controller
it would be single-manual and monophonic, wouldn't it?
So I expect nothing overwhelming here unless you find one-fingered organ
playing interesting. Ok ok, Bach turned the "monophonic" prelude of the
solo violin partita 3 into an organ prelude, but even on organ you'd
probably want to play some phrases over more than a single manual.
An EWI can play 2 notes at a time :) It has a "octave" switch which sets
it
so a 2nd note, one octave below, sounds at the same time. And a "sustained
note" thing which holds the last note played when you play a 2nd one, until
there is a break in the phrase. The latter is actually quite interesting,
but takes a lot more skill than I have to sound really good.
Monophonic Bach isn't all bad. Remember, the cello concerto (one of the
most beautiful pieces ever written) is, mostly, monophonic :)
But, I figured that the breath controller CC would not be supported. But,
since it's just software, maybe in a future release?
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> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 2:52 AM, David
Kastrup <dak(a)gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Paul Davis <paul-dDzkXPnfpdxaomM2pvQuqZqQE7yCjDx5(a)public.gmane.org>
>> writes:
>>
>> > we already have aeolus :)
>>
>> Like, well, here: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k66X17S06uI>.
That's
> using
a Midi accordion as controller. Sorry for the quality of the
> playing: this was just an answer for someone asking how to arrange
> something like "Silent Night" simplistically for accordion, so it was
> just done off the cuff. But it does show that Aeolus works nicely with
> that kind of controller.
I wonder how it would work with a breath controller like an EWI?