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Re: Clarimate? (mute/midi interface)

Author: smokindok
Date: 2022-11-24 03:47

It will be interesting to follow where this goes.

Maybe I am, as usual, too skeptical, but I don't think this will be what a lot of people expect.

My experience with breath-controlled midi instruments is limited to the Yamaha WX5, but I think all the existing options have similar characteristics. The "reed" is not a vibrating reed, but controls pitch by sensing pressure; the key systems, being digitally precise, requires very accurate finger placement to avoid stray intermediate sounds; and the breath control does not have an acoustic wind instrument feel, as far as volume and resistance goes.

Unless this system has somehow overcome these problems, I think playing this instrument will have little resemblance to playing a clarinet. Might be a fun toy, though.

In support of this skepticism, the YouTube video posted by Buffet is disappointing. First off, with Buffet's access to prominent clarinetists, you would think they would use someone other than a student to market the product. And there is no demonstration of the product! Maybe they do not have anyone that can actually play the thing respectably.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw5mpYmrl9Y

John

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