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Hello Jerry,

Havent checked out the patch yet, but I've just listened to the Mpeg 
example...

What can I say? You complete genius, this is exactly what I needed!!!

The precise sound in my head more or less, I'll examine your sound & 
personalise it to my own taste...

Big Thanks, Big Thanks

(BTW you dont know any good resources on the web on Playing 
techniques do you?)

Thanks once again

P


> 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