Thank you for posting this. I have been using Scaler for years, and just recently bought the Strum upgrade, so seeing that you have combined these two programs is of great interest to me.
ClaudioPorcellana hey, have you got any great suggestions for brass solutions for solos esp trumpet and tromboneā¦ Looking for ideas no matter how mad
I am sure they are good
the problem is that using a keyboard to create wind/brass sounds that not sound as harps is very hard, and this is why I often try to create suitable arpeggios/riffs with absurd instruments
I own 3 saxes and a clarinet, but I am afraid that if I gave you any one of them it still wouldnāt solve your problem, as I can assure you that it is much more than making a reed vibrate.
When I was growing up, being a sax player since I was 7, I was always told that the problem with the world was too much sax and violins.
Now that I am much, much, ā¦(lots of muches) older, I now know that the problem with the world is Politics. Poli, or poly meaning āmanyā and tics meaning āblood suckersā.
I am happy to play any of my saxes without even thinking about the how, or the why, of fingerings and technique.
One of the most important things to use when trying to imitate a sax on keyboard is a midi breath controller. Same for many instruments; it will also help with Strings.
If you donāt own one, I would highly recommend it.
I know, I knowā¦ I was only joking
many years ago I tried to play the clarinet of my grandpa of blessed memory (just restored by a lutist: the clarinet, not the grandpa) and I found it was devilishly hard to learn
many years later, I meet a friend who was learning to play the sax, and currently play sax in the Brazilian band Rio Floyd Machine
I tried to play his instrument also, finding it was way harder than my clarinet
I think that in the past I also tried to play a trumpet and a fiddle, and I am quite sure the neighborhood still remember that experience
This is quite interestingā¦
One question about that: can I use it with any plugin, even a free one to start and see, or they work with expensive plugins only?
You can use a midi breath controller with any plugin or hardware.
Itās like being able to use a modwheel or volume slider by using breath pressure, but of course by using a breath controller you can gain a lot more control.
I would probably own one if I didnāt already own a Yamaha WX5.
my devilish mind is starting to think about a mic coupled with a kazoo, and some effects afterā¦
WOW, too bad a sax kazoo is not commercialized, but I can try the trombone
LOL
Last night I tested the capacity of EzBass to create sax riffs and I can say it works
Donāt expect to find everything already done anyway: some cutting and sewing job is still needed, because the parts suitable for saxophones are hidden within bass-lines, but not at the point a rabbit composer cannot find them
Now I have a big job to manage, but as far I find some time Iāll drop a possible workflow
cheers