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Free and recommended by Doktor Future in the comments of this post: "The SilverwoodV3.ens does many wind instruments, and is great with the EWI. MP3 here.
Description
"Breath controlled physical model brass, woodwind, and Hammond organ synthesizer
*** Update: V3 now includes a model of a Hammond organ. The model includes percussion, key click, chorus, harmonic foldback, and a set of drawbars that can morph from one setting to another. ***
Silverwood is a synthesizer that mimics acoustic wind instruments. It contains no oscillators or envelope generators. Instead, it creates sounds using waveguide physical modeling synthesis, and is activated by a wind or breath controller. It is monophonic.
Please note that without a wind or breath controller, Silverwood will make no sound. Update: V3 includes a 'KB Test' button, which when activated will trigger the model whenever MIDI note-on events are received.
Six physical models are included: brass, saxophone, clarinet, flute, recorder, and organ. After a sound is created by a model, it passes through an equalizer that mimics the bell of an acoustic instrument.
The snapshots include these acoustic instrument emulations:
Brass: Trumpet, Trombone, French Horn, Tuba, Cornet, Flugelhorn, Euphonium
Saxophones: Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone
Double Reeds: Oboe, English Horn, Bassoon
Clarinets: Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
Flutes: Piccolo, Flute, Bass Flute
Other Pipes: Pan Pipes, Irish Whistle, Shakuhachi
Other Reeds: Uilleann Pipes, Scots Pipes, Accordion, Harmonica
Organs: Various popular Hammond settings.
Each snapshot responds to MIDI breath pressure (on CC2) and pitchbend data. Various other MIDI control sources are supported.
Snapshot names indicate the instrument’s natural range and the pitchbend effects. For example, the snapshot “Trumpet F#3-D6 +screech –falloff” indicates that the instrument is a trumpet, that it’s natural range is from F#3 to D6, that bending the pitch up adds screech, and that bending the pitch down adds falloff.
The sample mp3 demonstrates the oboe and bassoon emulations.
Many of the mouthpiece and bore designs are based on STK, created by Drs. Perry Cook and Gary Scavone.
The graphic control elements were created by Vera Kinter, at http://www.artvera-music.com, and were provided by Bernd Keil.
I wish to acknowledge these whose publications have assisted me in the creation of this instrument:
Dr. Jim Clark
Dr. Perry Cook
Mr. Kenneth Elhardt
Mr. Rob Hordijk
Dr. Toshifumi Kunimoto
Dr. Gary Scavone
Dr. Julius Smith
Dr. Vesa Välimäki"
The neat thing about this synth is you can't play it with a keyboard -- it responds to the MIDI Breath CC :)
ReplyDeleteSome patches on the Yamaha VL series are like that as well. It threw me off the first time I tried one.
ReplyDeleteI think one can set a slider to give some 'air' so you can play it with a regular keyboard, but it's not as expressive as with a breath controller.
ReplyDeletehow do I get this software?
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