Author: timg
Date: 2008-08-18 23:40
Windcontrollers aren't really like electric guitars, in that their sound is entirely synthetic. Guitars, acoustic or not, generate the sound from the vibrating strings. (Of course the sound from an electric guitar may be heavily modified by the amplifier.)
In the windcontroller there is no vibration to pick up. It senses the air flow, pressure from the jaw, and the finger positions, and feeds this stream of data into a synthesiser. There is no resonance in the instrument itself, and the fingers touch switches rather than tone holes.
The comparison between a clarinet and a windcontroller is rather like the comparison between a piano and a conventional keyboard synthesiser.
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