Create a Range Limiting Environment Object 

To continue with our environment, weʼre going to move into a little bit deeper water. Up until now weʼve created simple objects to control a single parameter with a simple on/off switch like interface. This week weʼre going to build…

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Create a Pitchbend Kill Switch 

Watch the video for this tutorial: HERE 

Now weʼre going to build a pitchbend kill switch. This is great if youʼre driving more than one sound source at a time and want one to react to pitchbend and the other…

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Creating A Unique Identity on the EWI 

I think ultimately the question we all ask ourselves becomes: “What creates a musical identity on an instrument?” I’ve posted this question before on other wind forums and have gotten minimal input from others. This is one of the questions…

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Dynasample Xpression

 

I have written before and I still maintain that I'm not particularly a fan of wind synthesis as a repalcement for acoustic instruments. I don't think the technology has reached a point of being viable in that capacity and honestly…

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Harmonic Rotator

 

Here's a video of me playing around with a MIDI script sent to me by Robby Kilgore. This script is a "harmonic rotator" that emulates the voice rotation function of the classic Oberheim Xpander analog synth. This rotator function…

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Programming Basic Breath Control for Kontakt

Basic Breath Control Programming For Kontakt 
(View the companion video for this tutorial here

In this tutorial we’re going to delve into a subject that I have been asked about on many occasions. Probably my number one all-time requested…

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Programming Basic Breath Control for EXS24

Basic Breath Control Programming For Apple’s EXS24 Sampler
(View the companion video for this tutorial here

In this tutorial we’re going to delve into a subject that I have been asked about on many occasions: Programming breath control for…

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