Wind controllers?

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Zen Flute – Describe as a “mouth Theremin”.

I must say, the audio of this is the best sounding simulation of a real instrument i have ever heard. Sounds like a Native American flute for real. Usually electronic wind synths trying to sound “real” has no interest for me, but not in this case. Would be interested in the MIDI this generates as well.

Inexpensive and open source.

Simple to control, it senses the size of the mouth cavity for pitch, so similar to whistling, and then two other simple controls.

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Meh, the VL-70m is still yet to beat.

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Does anyone use a foot controller with their wind controller ?

I would like to trigger midi clips and loops while I play the Sylphyo.

The Behringer FCB1010 second hand is quite cheap.

There’s also these kind of things, quite expensive though :

Which one would you recommend ?

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I hated the FCB1010 with a passion, by far the least intuitive setup mechanism.

I’ve got a MIDI Captain that I’ve setup to do some basic CCs when I need it to but I couldn’t really speak too much to it as I dont use it a lot.

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Thanks I didn’t know this one, it might be a good candidate for me.

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It’s also small, the FCB1010 is huge.

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There’s a wind synth community event going on today for Nyle Steiner’s birthday:

Recording of stuff so far:

Current live stream

I haven’t been following it too closely, just took a couple looks at times today.

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The Warbl. More specifically the Warbl 2.

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This is also mentioned in the recent Eagan Matrix update 10.40

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I like the design of Warbl 2. The custom fingering support and fingering chart tool looks very useful. I like pitch bend by finger distance fro the hole.

I wonder if there will be a deal bundling Warbl 2 with Eagan Matrix Micro when the latter product is officially released, since Haken states it was designed with Warbl in mind. I don’t play the speculation game very well, but the photo makes me guess that an app will be required to configure settings in this Micro, and that a front panel UI (display, knobs, etc.) was omitted to maximize cost savings. As noted in the Micro thread, no CV either, but as a little box to pair by Bluetooth with Warbl 2 for computer-free playing I’m ok with that compromise.

In the meantime I’ve been inspired to check out tin whistle videos. The traditional D whistle sounds like it’ll produce piercing highs that would soon be intolerable to my ears. Thinking of getting a low D whistle - then I can learn the beginner tunes in the traditional D key but in the mellower lower octave. I may not stick to the trad fingering on the Warbl 2 if/when I get it but it’ll be fun to have the acoustic whistle and get some feel for how it plays.

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And I expect that app will be the Haken Editor 10.40, which works fine, but the casual user isn’t going to like it very much. For starters, it requires Max (free version) and a delightful 23-step installation process.

When I ordered my WARBL2, I asked Andrew Mowry about the Micro, but he wasn’t giving any info away.

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I’m thinking mobile app, just like the Roland app for the Aerophone 20.

Warbl 2 was designed to be used as a Bluetooth instrument with mobile devices as well as computer, so to me that means mobile app.

App for controlling Micro settings should also integrate Warbl 2, otherwise whats the point of designing the Micro for Warbl 2 and marketing it as a Warbl 2 companion.

Also, Warbl2 is being marketed to “traditional players”. So I would imagine this Haken-Warbl collab would take into account the target audience - Irish penny whistle enthusiasts may not have the patience to deal with the full-on Eagan Matrix editor experience. You gotta give them a friendlier looking app that exposes only a subset of Eagan Matrix, for quick edits.

We’ll see who is proven right in the near future.

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I hope it’s you. I don’t want to be using the Haken Editor to manage two different devices.