A Ballad for my daughter, WX5 w/Sonar & MOTIF-ES RACK MIDI

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I composed this ballad for my daughter. I'm performing it using my Yamaha WX5 MIDI controller attached to a Turbo VL70-m and a Yamaha MOTIF-ES Rack. The background music is all done in Cakewalk SONAR Producer Edition. The Tenor Sax is the MBrecker voice on the VL70m.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• WX5
• MOTIF
• Cakewalk
• Sonar
• VL70m
• VL70-m
• Jazz
• Ballad
• Sax

[freighter014]

learn 2 play the real saxophone... it is a real instrument that takes real balls.

[tonyph12345]

@freighter014 That's funny...  I've played the "real" saxophone for over 25 years. I've played in far more bands than you've written words! ;)

[javasoccernut]

Tony, How well does the wx5 work with the MOTIF RACK-ES? I have a roland sound module and quit playing with it because it doesn't repond to the aftertouch. So it sounds like i am tonguing every note. I would love to get a vl70m and start playing again. (note to sweetbutdaring - I have a tenor and alto sax).

[tonyph12345]

About as well as the Roland. Some of the voices lend themselves VERY well to playing with the WX5, others not so much.

You also might try programming your Roland to work with BC data instead of flipping the DIPs on the WX5 all the time. I do that with my fav. voices; tell the synth to couple BC control to VOLUME, and set a Fixed Velocity.

I use a Yamaha MEP4 processor to do the hard stuff... :)

[javasoccernut]

what i have is a JV-1010. Not much programing, if i remember rightly. I never messed with the dip switches on the wx5 much. I probably will just go with the vl70m sometime in the future. probably once i get room to set up all my equipment.

[tonyph12345]

Oh, yeah, the 1010 is a pretty old beast... If you have a GUITAR CENTER nearby, take your battery-powered WX5 and a standard MIDI cable and go play the synths they have on the showroom floor. They're usually quite agreeable to that. Just switch the DIP settings on the WX5 to send VOLUME and VELOCITY data instead of BC data and you should be fine. I *think* that's the top three left dip switches should be to the RIGHT, or ON.

[crouchingPIG]

pass the peace pipe to me my friend

[scottbeedie]

very nice i am sure she enjoyed it !!!

[jimmyss75]

Amazing sounding, that's VL70m right? If its okay i would like to share some very expressive acousitc patches I've made for the Korg Trinity/Triton with MOSS 6voice for any MIDI wind instrument I guess, at cartadore d.o.t c.o.m, take care!!

[pablodigiovanni]

Really nice Ballad, I would like to hear with Real Sax :)

[jcubero001]

Hi Tony, I'm not a musician however I'm learning Clarinet, a new baby is almost coming to my life so I'm looking for an instrument I can learn using my headphones, this one you are playing sounds very nice but it is quite expensive I'm also reviewing EWI USB do you have any feedback to share with me comparing both of them..

BTW. Thanks to share this beautiful song.

[sargetech]

@tonyph12345 Good for you Tony!!! the nerve of that knucklehead. Technology is a musicians friend.

Let's see a sax play, harp, guitar, flute, violin, trumpet, organ, or even drums. A wind controller opens up sonic doors to play sounds in a way not possible on the native instruments. Nice composition!! and nice setup!! Cheers!!

[HardlineAthiest]

@freighter014

Well I'm definitely one one hiding, I don't play Sax or any horn/woodwind instrument, I do play piano and have a home midi music studio with about 5 synths, 8 rack mount synths and a great digital audio workstation PC complete with Alesis Surround Sound 4 channel Studio One monitors!!

Ever heard of Vangelis? He's a favorite composer of mine. Cheers!

[freighter014]

@HardlineAthiest nice one... do you even play anything? why don't you post a video of yourself playing the sax? i'd gladly post a video of mine. then we can see who is hiding behind the computer screen ;)

[HardlineAthiest]

@freighter014

You should probably just stick with blowing cocks 'n sucking more real balls, its what you're best at anyway, twerp.

[orcatheforker]

Very nice. I listened all the way through, which I usually don't. To me you show that it's more the musicianship than the instrument that really counts. Too many windsynth players just make a dreadful noise without any feeling at all.