Ugo
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Posted: June 03 2002, 12:33 |
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Hallo everyone. I am writing this while the Tr3s Lunas CD, spinning on my player, is providing me a very pleasant soundtrack  , and I am also thinking that maybe I should put this in Tubular Tech, as my question is technical. But since I'm thinking about a sound only appearing in Tr3s Lunas, I put it here.
As most of you know, there are some places in Tr3s Lunas where Mike's guitar is supposed to sound like a saxophone. I say that it's "supposed to", because to my (cloth?) ears it sounds much more like an EWI. This is a little electronic thing by Yamaha (I think its name stands for Electronic Wind Instrument, or something like that...). This instrument looks like a long soprano sax with keys and it is connected to a sound module with many presets. The default one is the alto saxophone, but the other ones emulate all other classical & modern wind instruments... trumpet, flute, recorder, horn and so on. The instrument itself is equipped with a small fan in the mouthpiece, acting as 'breath controller', i.e. the player can control the sound by breathing into it, and it can also be turned off. Well... Mike's guitar sounds to me very like an EWI simulating a sax, but with the 'breath controller' turned off... maybe Mike connected his MIDI pickup to the EWI's sound module...
Please tell me what do you think of this, and, if you know the EWI, also tell me if you like its sound or not. 
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Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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What the hell do you mean, Richard?