== Breath controller ==
=== Background ===
To play wind instruments more realistic if you are a keyboard player, a breath-controller is a good option: You select the notes to play with your keyboard, but the sound is triggered and articulated based on your breath. This is not only useful for flute-like instruments, but also for other instruments like brass and strings that can articulate a note more then just on-off. === Cleaning === === Instruments ===If you own Native Instruments Reaktor, I like to recommend the free community instruments especially the "Silverwood" ones from Chef Singer. [[https://www.native-instruments.com/de/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/12303/ Silverwood Flute]], [[https://www.native-instruments.com/de/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/7854/ Silverwood Clarinets]] as well as [[https://www.native-instruments.com/de/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/12419/ Silverwood Tenor Sax]] are very good sounding instruments as they are using pysical models to synthesize those instruments. Don't forget to add a little reverb to make them sound really great. Also other sample-based instruments, especially strings but also organs, can be articulated much nicer using a breath-controller. Often expression (CC11) or breath control (CC2) is supported - so find out. You can change the Arduino code to use CC11 instead of CC2 if you like, I prefer a little M4L device to clone CC2 to CC11 for this purpose...
* [[:Datei:MembranBreathConttrolThinPlexi.svg]] for thin (0.5mm) acrylic
* [[:Datei:MembranBreathConttrolThickPlexi.svg]] for thick (4mm) acrylic
All parts are laser cut and glued with acrylic glue.
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