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There also exist a few dedicated MIDI Trumpets out there:

In no particular order:

The Morrison Digital Trumpet

Cornell University's Trumpet MIDI Controller Project


I have no firsthand experience with any of these.

Ike, you and I can also play the Piano. I have found it not all that hard to use the MIDI Keyboard Controller for recording horn parts to MIDI.

No need to transpose, either, you can set the MIDI keyboard such that its C corresponds to Concert Bb and then just play the notes as you already know them to be on the Trumpet. After recording, you can simply change the key signature if you need charts or the like.


--Mac



Thanks Mac!

Ya know, I have a playing partner who has a midi keyboard and she let me take it home and tinker ... Yes it does do the trick, however ...

I haven't had an acoustic piano at my house in years and I've been playing a cheap non-midi, Yamaha PSR-190 for a time but nothing with MIDI (although my Yamaha has satisfied me as I believe that I'm my own best fan). I'll be honest with you though ... I haven't had a thing to do with MIDI until I started using BIAB (more-so lately). Seems I remember tooling around with a synthesizer once many moons ago. I've used BIAB for a few years but mostly for guitar and singing and occasional trumpeting (just doodling around ya' know).

Afterward I told my friend that I think that I must posses a music-oddity which is that when I'm playing trumpet my improvisations turn out so much more "jazzy" and embellished -- so much so that I'd like to have them in sheet-music form -- My nephews whom I tutor like them and would like to play them as I do and thus, my asking the question about this MIDI recording thing. Take the same situation though (my playing her MIDI keyboard), and my trumpet compositions come out sort of flat and uninteresting to me. Almost like they've been written by two different persons. I was basically taking my piano-created MIDI trumpet composition and then using BIAB Editable Notation Mode to jazz things up to my liking.

I dunno ... I'm thinking that one side of my brain is piano and the other is trumpet! The wife says they are neither -- they are something else entirely. She didn't say what though.

Ike