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Nice Jerry!

 --- "Jerry Aiyathurai <tuskerfort@...>"
<tuskerfort@...> wrote: > 
> > 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
> 
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