The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

> I'm working on some middle Eastern influenced (Maybe not the ideal 
> thing to mention considering the current political climate) music, 
@ 
> the minute...
> 
> & was wondering if anyones got any tips or patches that would help 
me 
> create something close(ish) to a middle Eastern Reed type 
> (Nagiswarmish) instrument?

Hi Peter:

I am a big fan of double reed instruments (nagesuram, shawm, oboe, 
duduk) too. I grew up listening to the nagasuram and I have loved 
Djivan Gasparyan's duduk timbres with Peter Gabriel. What a 
concidence! I did a monophonic piece recently with a patch to test 
the capabilities of the AN1X with that kind of material.  

Here's how to get the tune and the patch. Go to Yahoo briefcase and 
sign in as rimskyrimsky with a password of 11231123.

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/

The piece is called Monologue and is in the Monologue folder. The 
patch is called EarthHorn and is in the My Documents folder. 

The patch isn't a replica of any of these instruments ...  but the 
idea was to force the synth to be expressive in the tradition of 
monophonic instruments such these. When writing the piece, I did 
migrate from the double reed to some distinctly electronic timbres in 
order to maintain interest. Although the AN1X is not a reed model, I 
found that it could quite evocative. The only area where I found it a 
little lacking was in the attack (chiff). If I was to do a strictly 
emulative patch, I would dedicate one scene to getting the attack 
right. Something I didn't do in this case, since I wanted the 
electronic timbres.

More about the patch:

- Inverted envelope on main patch, hold out the note and use 
aftertouch to sweeten the tone
- pitch bending (+-3) on the X ribbon
- pitch bending (+-12) on the pitch wheel
- accented attack (pitch envelope) on the Z ribbon
- You can brighten the sound to taste with knob # 5
- You can morph to the second scene creating sidebands for effect if 
you like

Hope you like it,

Jerry