Author: smokindok
Date: 2023-01-17 01:22
Sean,
I think this paragraph in Bret's review answers your question:
"The 'active reed' has a simple non-electronic device that sits inside the mouthpiece to detect pressure on the reed. As I understand it, this pressure is supposed to affect pitch, but I was unable to get the reed properly calibrated, so I wasn’t able to test this. I got an error message from the apps over and over during the calibration process. A Buffet representative kindly walked me through several potential solutions, including trying ligatures other than the one I usually use, but we were unable to solve the problem."
My understanding of this is that he was playing the ClariMate without the "active reed" system enabled, so there was no lip pressure data being received by the device. If no lip pressure data is being received, the ClariMate must default to, as you correctly describe it, an auto-tune type pitch generation.
This would be like playing a Yamaha WX5 with the "recorder" type mouthpiece instead of the "reed" type mouthpiece. I assume the Clarimate "active reed" works similarly to the Yamaha WX5 "reed", having a mechanical lever arm that moves with varying lip pressure on the "reed", generating a position signal that gets sent to the control module. Dialing in the lip pressure signal through the controls on a WX5, to give something close to a realistic response, is fairly tricky and time consuming to do, so I am not surprised that this may present a "challenge" on the Clarimate.
John
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