Yamaha WX5 Wind Controller Jamin'

[ikciwon1]

These things are great in the right hands (read: other than mine) for sure.

[surfinjazzy]

I saw a show last night, bruce cox quintet at the fat cat in NYC. The front man alternated between a tenor on traditional stuff, and a wind controller for their electric stuff, and it was INSANE!!! He p,ayes it ridiculously well and had some sort of effect on it that increased fullness and sustain.... And he wasn't a goof, lol!

[ikciwon1]

Maybe more silly than cool but thanks

[according2ed]

You are one cool dude. And it shows in your sound.

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[ikciwon1]

It can be a serious instrument I suppose

[dmartinp]

its humorous because you cant be serious with something like this.

[ikciwon1]

Thanks barrhh84... fun to do.

[barrhh84]

This is awesome!!!

[ikciwon1]

Thanks 360.... life is a funny place to start with so I just go with it

[therightstuff360]

love the humor :D

[TheBananahulk]

is it plyn like an alto or a sorpran say

[ikciwon1]

The WX5 is great...though I never tried the EWI

[jimmyss75]

Those reeds are so much fun! I used to own a EWI 3020 but when I got the chance trying the Yamaha WX5 I was overwhelmed how much even better the Yamaha felt. and It's so much easier to carry around too.

[ikciwon1]

They are fun,,I have 2 just in case

[nickleus1977]

i totally want one of these! =)

[ikciwon1]

I use the VL70m module with a Patchman chip and midi to other modules I have laying around (Yamaha ES, Roland Fantom XR, EMU Proteus 1 and sometimes to my Motif XS7 keyboard. Very fast tracking, Never tried the Akai ....yet.

[magmanolo]

Hi, How Can this instrument be Played alive? Its only needs a PC? How is its latency? Which is better Yamaha WX5 or EWI? Thanks

[ikciwon1]

Give it a shot,,, though another hand or two might make it doable.

[wasabihansen]

do you think this is good if playing guitar too... i mean, if we can play guitar and harmonica at the same time, why not playing this instrument and guitar at the same time

[ikciwon1]

Thanks Heroes12........

[Heroes1234567891]

I like your wall, very nice wall.

[ikciwon1]

Maybe someday I will be... only acting here.

[drownedinsect]

AHAHAHAHH!!!! He actually thinks hes cool!!!!

[ikciwon1]

Very much like a sax and be set more like a recorder... not sure about clarinet... should be real close.

[maximumbs]

Are the fingerings similar to a clarinet?

[LavaLampBlob]

@maximumbs I have a WX5 - there are DIP switches to control the fingering - I believe it can be made to finger like a clarinet / recorder but default from the factory is like a sax.

[freudjung]

great

[crawcin]

OMG---you are great!

[ikciwon1]

Trumpet.. so far

[upStandardCitizens]

My gosh! Who wouldn't want one of those? Oh, and good grief, Kramster, what can't you play??

[ikciwon1]

It's cool... just a fancy midi-able sax thang.

[COMALiteJ]

Oh, a bit more than that! The VL-70m's underlying technology was and remains the best true synthesis technology ever, IMHO.

These days, people mainly just do sampling and throw tons of memory at it to get variability in the sound. But sampling is a cheat, IMHO. It's not true SYNTHESIS.

The VL's Physical Modeling simulates the way that real instruments work, rather than just recording someone playing a real instrument and playing back the recording at different speeds for different notes.

[ikciwon1]

It is darn good.. and I have a Patchman chip in there which is great.

[everysinglenamesgone]

What a bizarre device!