Per Boysen
Active Member
Definitely "the latter". I should have said that in my post, I see now.Thank you, Per. I don't know what an 'EWI' is, so I'm not quite sure what your point is...
Are you saying it will be difficult for me to learn to coordinate all the simultaneous skills/gestures needed to PLAY the SWAM instruments (or comparables) effectively?
Or are you saying it will be worthwhile for someone like me, who does not play actual wind instruments (or bowed string instruments), to invest my time in developing the skill to play these virtual wind and bowed instruments?
I hope it's the latter... =]
It takes time to set up, but that's of course not an issue if you have time at hand (and know a bit about how the real instruments are played). To mention one aspect that is easy to forget: for a solo instrument, the relation between the played vibrato and the tempo of the music is an important expression factor. This is overlooked by many sampler libraries. So the first thing I do when setting up SWAM patches is to take away the default binding of vibrato to an LFO and instead bind that CC to "bite" on my EWI. On a normal keyboard, I have not found out how to fix this, but you get halfway by binding press/aftertouch to the vibrato LFO and also to this LFO's speed - and then dial in the musically optimal balance between these two press targets. I have also played my SWAM instrument's default MPE patches from a Roli Seaboard Rise2 and this works well, gliding fingers sideways for vibrato and pressing down for level.