Originally Posted By: Will Josef
Hi Mario,

That piece of music turned out very well! I've always wondered: is the wind controller hard to play...I mean somehow physical demanding? On some videos I've seen, where people are using it, they look like it is quite hard to use it.

Thanks for sharing,
Will


Thanx Will.

Actually is isn't that hard but you have to have a good set of lungs. I was a trumpet and French horn player until severe asthma halted my playing ability. That ended my horn playing for many years. About 20 years or so ago I finally got most of my lung functions back. I tried my trumpet then, but when I saw a wind controller I knew that is what I wanted. Using my lungs I can play any instrument via my wind controller.

One important factor is your sound source. If it is set a a low volume then you will have to blow harder into the wind controller. Fortunately most software will allow you to adjust the initial volume. Also some software comes ready for wind controllers. They are the easiest to use. However any Kontakt instrument that is not wind controller ready can be modified to accept a wind controller but you must have the full version of Kontakt to do that.

The Akai wind controllers have a number of fingering options. One being a trumpet like fingering. I still have problems with the octave rollers but to be honest I really don't practice.

So being an ex horn player the transition to a wind controller was not hard. But there is a learning curve.

Note that you will be working in MIDI so you have a lot of options with a wind controller track.

If I can do it I'm sure anyone can.

I hope this helps and good luck.

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