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1.5 Acoustic wind instrument conversion to software MIDI as wind control.Custom patches (or presets) are required for optimal expressivity, to take advantage of the considerable benefits of wind control. It should be noted however that certain virtual instruments and hardware synthesizers are better suited to being adapted for wind controllers than others. In other words it is irrelevant whether a given wind controller was designed primarily to appeal to woodwind, brass or harmonica players as they can all be used to control absolutely any virtual instrument sounds. For example, a wind controller can be made to sound like a trumpet, saxophone, violin, piano, pipe organ, choir, synthesizers or even a barnyard rooster. The fingering and shape of the wind controller put no acoustic limitations on how the wind controller actually sounds. The now discontinued EWI 4000s had a DSP subtractive synthesizer built in rather than sampled instruments and so remains a popular choice on the second hand market. Wind controller models such as the Akai EWI5000, EWI SOLO, and Roland Aerophones have built-in onboard sample sounds, as well as the MIDI and/or USB outputs. For this reason, a wind controller can sound like almost anything depending on the capabilities of the connected or built in sound generator. Some wind controllers such as EWI USB, Berglund NuEVI and NuRAD are strictly 'controllers' and do not make a sound on their own, and thus must be connected via MIDI or USB to a sound generating device or a soft synth running on a computer or mobile device.

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Some even include small built in speakers such as the Roland Aerophone series and the Akai EWI SOLO, however their small speaker systems cannot reproduce bass notes correctly or provide adequate sound levels for serious live performance, so these built in sound systems are strictly for home practice at modest playback levels.

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Some wind controllers contain a built in sound generator and can be connected directly to an amplifier or a set of headphones. For example, a performer who has pressed a long held note on the keyboard with a sustained sound, such as a string pad, could blow harder into the breath controller set to control volume to make this note crescendo, or gradually blow more and more gently, to make the volume die away. A breath controller can be used with a keyboard MIDI controller to add articulation and expression to notes sounded on the keyboard. Unlike wind controllers, they do not trigger notes and are intended for use in conjunction with a keyboard or synthesizer.

Simpler breath controllers are also available. The control signals or MIDI messages generated by the wind controller are used to control internal or external devices such as analog synthesizers or MIDI-compatible synthesizers, synth modules, softsynths, sequencers, or even non-instruments such as lighting systems. The most common form of wind controller uses electronic sensors to convert fingering, breath pressure, bite pressure, finger pressure, and other gesture or action information into control signals that affect musical sounds. Models have been produced that play and finger like other acoustic instruments such as the recorder or the tin whistle. Wind controllers are most commonly played and fingered like a woodwind instrument, usually the saxophone, with the next most common being brass fingering, particularly the trumpet. San Francisco musician Onyx Ashanti playing a wind controllerДЄ wind controller, sometimes referred to as a wind synthesizer, is an electronic wind instrument and usually in the form of a MIDI controller associated with one or more music synthesizers.

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