Author: LonDear
Date: 2007-04-14 12:32
Koo,
The lip pressure on the reed does control pitch, just like on clarinet. You have to keep some pressure on it to keep it in tune. When you want to bend the pitch up or down you increase or decrease the pressure. The amount of pressure required to maintain an in tune pitch is adjustable, and the entire lip pressure system can be turned off. There is also a thumb wheel that can bend the pitch up and down, much like the EWI.
The air pressure controls the volume. The curve for this pressure is adjustable.
While these controllers feel natural to a woodwind player, they can be rerouted to other sources of modulation such as scream, breath noise, growl, damping, and quite a few more.
If this doesn't answer the question yet, please feel free to contact me off-board so we're not boring Mark and Glenn with this psuedo-clarinet stuff.
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