What is a Wind Controller?
A wind controller, sometimes referred to as a “wind synth”, “windcontroller”, or “windsynth” , can loosely be defined as an electronic wind instrument. Wind controllers are, for no logical reason, most commonly played and fingered like a saxophone- though models have been produced that play and finger like other acoustic instruments such as the trumpet, recorder, tin whistle, harmonica, and others. A wind controller might convert fingering, breath pressure, bite pressure, finger pressure, and other sensors into control signals which are then used to control internal or external devices such as MIDI synthesizers, analog synthesizers, computer softsynths, MIDI sequencers, MIDI lighting systems, etc… A wind controller usually does not make a sound on its own- though a few have built-in synths. A wind controller is usually connected to some sort of sound generating device such as a MIDI or analog synthesizer or sound module / tone generator which is then connected to an amplifier. For th
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