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sound robotic, but with these
techniques you'll fool
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‘emulations to program realistic
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playersnotonly bend notes
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interacting with each other. Yes
Indeed, there'savery goodreason
that most wind instrument
plug-ins and ROMplers sound
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‘The wind instruments that are
most viablefor ealisticemulation
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longsustainednotes without too
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becomes more obvious.
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therealism of any particular
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another to disguiseits flaws.
you want to goal-out, invest
na wind controller. This isa
kindof oversized MIDI recorder that
‘canbe blowninto to create realistic
‘dynamics envelopes. and configured
tocontrol simulated breath sounds
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MIDI Keyboard to input note values.
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the trombone alsoneeds pitchbend
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biggestimpacton the sound fst
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‘Think about the imitations of
the human player.Note duration
belimited tothe performer's
length of breath, and will shorten at
higher velocities asthe player's lungs
blow harder and aster through the
instrument, Emulate this by blowing
‘along with the wind partthat you're
‘writing -when yourun outof breath,
splitthe currently playingnote.
itching on wind instruments is
rarely 100% precise. Much like
string players, wind players correct
pitch errorsafter afew milliseconds.
During fast runs, valveinstrument
players (eg trumpet and french
horndare physically unable to
‘depress each vaive fully before
moving onto thenextnote, resulting
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between pitches. Emulate thisby
imistuning the starts and ends of
‘notes with pitchbend, or by heavily
‘muting some notes during arun.
Allblown instruments are
relatively quiet compared to
‘other families of instrumentation.
Bear this in mind when mixing and
refrain from pushing toomuch
volume out of single Instruments. If
‘Youwantan instrument tostand out
Inthe mix, EQit differently, double
withanotherorusea brighter
alternativelive a plecolo or trumpet.
29) COMPUTER MUSIC 55>make music now
Guitar
Instrument to emulate with MIDI
‘programming. Thereare some
‘very good plug-ins out there that
‘canhelp you to achieve realistic
‘ound, but they needto beplayed
‘and processed inthe same way
‘asa guitarist would play areal
‘guitar to sound truly great. So,
Success involves allowing for and
programming playing errors, and
recreating the sounds of finger
‘movements on strings.
‘Thereare essentially two ways
toplay the guitar strumming the
hhand across all ofthe strings to
produce a chord, orplucking the
strings with fingers ora plectrum
toproduce separatenotes.A
strumming action alwayssees
the player's hand move from the
top tothe bottomstring,or vice
‘versa, which means that strings.
are never played quite together.
The first thing youneedto do
toemulate this isturn quantise
offin your MIDI sequencer. The
strumming moverient can be
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bby rocking yourhands rom
the thumb tothe lite finger
backwards and forwards. The
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‘notes by hand, but this ean be
tricky and time-consuming.
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[When programming strummed
chords, remember to only use
‘chordsthat guitarists regutarly
lay. wwwchordbook.comis a
‘reatsite featuring virtual guitar
that strums the chord you'reatter
andnames thenotesit contains.
Play these notes back on your MIDI
keyboard to create realistic strum.
‘Onthecm DVDisa PDF thatexplains
how common guitar chords are
played on a keyboard - check out
GultarChordVolcings.pat.
Wien using pitchbend on rock
ultar tracks, bear in mind thata
‘guitarist can't pick thestringsand
lsethe whammy (pitchbend bar at
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should be used sparingly. The
‘musician can also create bends by
pushing the strings with theiriert
hand,but one or two semitones
should be the maximambend
within picked sequence of notes.
Ws the sounds youleave out
that will blow the cover of your
‘guitar patch. Finger slide sounds
‘andrelease stops should always be
included - omitting these will make
‘your guitar soundasitithasa
‘mechanical plucking mechanism!
‘Thereare loads of these samplesin
Kontakt format on thecm DVD,
‘courtesy of mpact Soundworks.
There arelots of multisampled
instruments and ROMplers out
‘there, but the two Kontaktpatches
‘weusehereare idealbecause of the
‘ease with which their articulations.
‘canbe velocity switched.
Indiginus (www.indiginus.com)
produce great collection of
‘acoustic gultar patches for E35, with
{tengultarsto choose from, and the
‘StrumMaker plug-inforcreating
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Impact Soundworks!
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patches, which are great
{for producing rhythm guitars, as
different ettects ean be applied to
Jeftand right channels separately.
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lees hmcerbie:
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mutes tor the eightirnotes. These
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possible. edged right upagainst the
startof the followingnote, Dragging
theendof eachnoteto the very
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