On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:36 AM, David Kastrup <dak(a)gnu.org> wrote:
Bob van der Poel <bob(a)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.
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