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You are in a 1960's smoky jazz lounge having a drink with your girl, dancing, and listening to the band. Every so often the band has to take a break. This is that moment.

I am playing the tenor via my wind controller and BiaB is playing everything else.

BiaB style = Vintage Stripper-Raucus Clu. I made no modifications to the style: it comes at you straight out of the box!

I hope you enjoy it.

Hey, glad to see you found the forum Mario!

You painted the picture for us perfectly, it sounded just as you said.

The wind controller action sounds good.

Mario,

This is just great... You set the mood perfectly. The wind controller and track mix is outstanding. I really enjoyed this.

Bob

Hi Mario.

You certainly have captured that mood.

It's amazing how much expression you achieve with that wind controller.
It sounds absolutely authentic. Super track.

Going back into the club for another listen!

Cheers, ROG.

The wind controller sounds so realistic, amazing. is it EWI? enjoyed it very much so.

Hello, Mario

Cool play!
You are in a 1960's smoky jazz lounge having a drink with your girl, dancing, and listening to the band. Every so often the band has to take a break. This is that moment.
Yes, it sounded just as you said.
As others said, the wind controller sounds so realistic, amazing.
Enjoyed my listen a lot.

All the best for 2018!

Shigeki Adachi

Dont choke on the smoke .

Nice groove Mario. Rob

...Don't forget to tip you waitress and bartender...

Nicely done, Mario. Cool sax...

Great job here, Mario! Smoky is definitely a fitting adjective - it has a sultry sort of mood to it, and a fantastic groove to boot. What you did here with your wind controller is outstanding.

Thanks so much for sharing

Amazing how good that wind controller sounds! Good stuff, Mario, enjoyed the listen.

Mario, Another great wind controller performance. I really loved it. The announcer part was pretty cool also, Tom

Mario

Very nice indeed and as everyone has said the sax sounds great - and I also liked the announcements near the end.

Peter

Hi, Mario !:))


What innovative and new
progressions and sounds,
I liked it very much !:))

Cheers
Dani

Oh man is that sax ever great! OK we've waited 30 minutes....where's the band. More!

J&B

Thanx Steve.

I took me a while but yes I did find it. Thank God for google!

Thanx for listening and the very nice comments.

Thanx Rog. Expression is why I decided to purchase a wind controller. I got tired of those static sax sounds via MIDI so I got the wind controller to input my own nuances.

Yes it is an EWI-USB. Thanx for listening and commenting.

Shigeki thanx so much for those kind comments.

Thanx Rob. Back in the days I had to get my asthma meds in prior to playing in a joint like that. That was one of the reasons I went into wedding bands, i.e. much better environment, clientele, and pay!

Always generously tip the waitress or bartender on your first drink and they will take care of you for the rest of the night. Been there - done that way to many times!

Thanx Deryk. Adding expression is the main reason I purchased the EWI-USB. Also this MIDI BiaB style is one of the best IMHO. Much better strings and piano in this style than many others IMHO.

Thanx Dave I'm glad you liked it.

Thanx Tom. We used to announce things like that at every gig.

Thanx Peter for listening. Those kind of announcements were very common in my wedding bands.

Thanx so much my friend.

There's trouble with the band!
The drummer got drunk and passed out
The rhythm guitarist took a girl out to the car, don't know why
The bass player is stoned on weed
and the five people in the audience don't give a damn about the band!

Sounds real to me!

I've got a USB EWI, and I love woodwinds on it... with the exception of the sax. If I had the SampleModeling library it would probably help a lot, but I can't justify the price, since I've got an actual sax sitting unplayed in the corner. (Every time I go to practice it, it seems my wife is trying to take a nap).

Anyway, thanks for posting.

Thanx David. Having a sax player say my MIDI sax sounds real means a lot to me. I do have the SampleModeling sax library as I found that to be the most realistic, but that is the only library of theirs that I own. I like the EWI on flutes also. Actually any monophonic instruments is enhanced with a wind controller IMHO.

PS - get that sax out and play!

I don't want to give the wrong impression - I'm more a wannabe player. I can honk out notes, but that's about it. But it's enough that when I try the sax sounds from the libraries I've got on the EWI, they are worlds away from real thing. So I'm impressed when someone can get past that really obvious "fake sax" sound.


I really should focus on getting a bit less awful on the trumpet first.

I'd hoped to convince one of my kids to pick up the sax, but that didn't fly. I think the big problem is that the sax really isn't a quiet instrument. My kids are shy about learning new things, and would rather not have people listen to them practice.

The sax does not lend itself to quiet practice! At least trumpets have mutes. Have you seen what a sax mute looks like?

But thanks for the encouragement!

David, maybe you could try this sax mute:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/131270218796

PS - when I was a teen living home I found out that both a trumpet and a guitar were not quite instruments!