Klarinet Archive - Posting 000535.txt from 1996/03

From: DT <dturner@-----.ID>
Subj: Re: Leeson's statistics & MIDI horns
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 23:30:58 -0500

On Wed, 20 Mar 1996 Lorne G. Buick wrote:

>Greetings - I have one of those (Casio digital horn), played it many times
>in concert and on a CD (Vancouver Wind Trio). Best $29 I ever spent. I use
>it for MIDI input on my MAC for music copying/publishing too - haven't done
>anything that really needed a keyboard yet, so I haven't bought one. I've
>played both the Yamaha and the Akai (?) EWI and personally I don't like the
>EWI because it has touch plates instead of moving keys. But I only know two
>pros who use wind controllers and they both use the EWI - possibly because
>it came out first and they didn't feel like making the switch.

I used Akai EWI 6-7 years ago (an analog MIDI horn) and gave up on it as it
forces me to adapt to its peculiarities (e.g. you couldn't even rest your
fingers on the keys as it will produce sound). WX7 is better in this
respect.
Initially I intended to explore electronic sound possibilites not possible
on digital keyboards (e.g. the "human feeling" of it). EWI as an electronic
wind instrument have that possibility and it's good in that sense. 2 years
ago I found out that MAX software from IRCAM plus my Mac computer + midi
sound modules could provide even -endless- creative possibility. But I'm
afraid now we're talking about electronic music.

I'll stop here and let's get back to the clarinet business.

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Denny Turner, Jakarta, Indonesia
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