Re: Has anyone played a yamaha midi wind controller?
Yes, it's a midi wind controller. It's not a sax, nor a substitute for a sax. It is a MIDI controller, only instead of having keys like a keyboard, it is set up like a soprano saxophone. It has a mouthpiece that you blow into in order to make a sound, like a real saxophone. The microprocessor monitors air input and increases volume the louder you play. It also adjusts pitch to correspond to your emboucher if you use vibrato, for example. I have found though that some of these parameters are overly sensative.
Some of the instrument sounds are very realist and sound very good. The flute and clarinet sounds are outstanding. The brass instrument sounds were good overall, but not very realistic because the controller made the brass instruments sound more like a reed instruments.
I bought mine to do MIDI sequencing and make some more realistic sounding horn section back-ups. Songs like Pick Up The Pieces, Play That Funky Music, Saturday In The Park, and a few others, the MIDI controller was pretty cool, because I could chain the VL-70 module to my keyboards and my other MIDI module and play one note on the MIDI sax and have it sound like a whole section!
I ended up trading my controller and the module to a guy who I used to play with for an old Conn New Wonder tenor.
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