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Re: Clarinet synth

Author: clarnibass  Date:   2015-09-12 11:12 >> If the acoustic sound is a "problem" then it must be a problem because there are either ears present to hear it, or a microphone getting it. Recording with a direct line out certainly would not have this problem. << Yes, that's what I meant. >> The question of why should a clarinet be more or different than a clarinet is a legitimate question. It is at the foundation of any question that seeks to use a "clarinet like" interface to make other sounds. << You only said "better", not "different", which is a different question As far as why it SHOULD be better or different, the answer is simple... it shouldn't. I mean, it doesn't have to be. I can only give the reason to why I do what I do when I use a pickup and effect... it is to do specific things and this is the way to do them. Things I can't do without using the pickup and effects. Just like I want to play clarinet without a pickup or effects. It's the same. I tried the pickup and effects to see if I can do certain things with it that I want to do and I found out that I do. It's fine if someone else doesn't want to do this. It's not a matter of better and it's not a matter of different for the sake of being different. >> Years ago someone gave me a digitech 100. I played with it for a week, then I gave it away. It was a novelty for a while, but not a lasting one. << I got a bunch of effects. I stopped using a couple of them pretty quickly because I decided I didn't want to use them. I kept using some of them because I could do things I wanted to do with them. >> As to the "better" or different question, perhaps learning keyboard or guitar is the answer? << Maybe in some cases it is. I know that I want to do certain things that are possible with a clarinet with a pickup and effects, some of which make it sound almost not like a clarinet at all and others use the sound of the clarinet too. I just played with it for a while to see if and what sounds are possible that I want to use. I'm not trying to sound like a guitar or keyboard. I don't want to play guitar or keyboard. What any of things I use were first intended for not really relevant... only the result matters. It seems strange that the MIDI controllers are not programable to be able to choose the fingerings, at least partly (e.g. since not all pinky keys are there). Maybe there's a good reason for this. BTW there's the synthophone, which I saw and heard. It is actually a real saxophone modified to work as a MIDI controller, connected to whatever MIDI sound you want. It is silent and there's no sound form the sax itself. I imagine something similar can be made with a clarinet, maybe he can make one, though I never asked about it and wasn't too interested in it anyway. http://synthophone.info/

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