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It doesn't matter if you use David Sanborn on a midi wind controller playing killer lines, if you play that back through the Roland VSC it still sounds like a kazoo. Even if you have a thousand dollar synth, the sax patch will sound nothing like Sanborn playing his horn live because midi won't allow for all the lipping, tonguing and whatever else a real sax player does to alter his sound.




*Some* synths do much better than others handling the CC messages from a wind controller.
I wouldn't agree with your statement wholeheartedly. I've heard some pretty amazing things come out of a wind controller.
I will admit, it takes a lot of talent from someone experienced in the instrument/synth. However, there are people on this very forum who could use a wind controller with a 'Michael Brecker' patch and sound pretty 'real'. Enough so that I would prefer it over many 'live' musicians. Probably over Realtracks in most instances. I don't discount MIDI so quickly.

Russell, some of the most incredible jazz I've ever heard came from various military bands. I went to a lot of jazz concerts in the 70's-80's and they almost always left me in awe. One Air Force band actually made me consider enlisting!
(just to see if I qualified to carry their horns)

Last edited by rharv; 04/01/10 03:09 PM.
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