Next there's a vague control labelled "K.N. Adding reverb really dials in the experience. A real saxophone has a lot of reverb the soft-synth lacks. Generally you have to play with these to dial it in best. Hit "edit effect" and then select that dropdown again to see the controls to change things like size and colour. The first thing you can do to clean that up is to click 'output' in Kontakt, and in the first row of output controls use the first dropdown to add "effects -> Reverb". This will give you much more control over your sound.Īs impressive as "The Sax Brothers" is, out of the box it can sound a bit clunky and flat. In "Controller Config" most of the settings should remain at the defaults, but I highly recommend remapping those thumb pitch benders to controllers 21 and 23, which corresponds to "growl" and "flutter tongue" in The Sax Brothers.
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Note that +22 is NOT a normally available option, and requires that you edit the XML for Aria or use our custom skin for Aria to make it available.
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Sax A and B you simply raise it five steps to instantly be in tune for Eb. This means no transpose is needed to play tenor sax parts in Mr. I find a slightly higher key delay of 9 to not really compromise playback, and makes the 'octave squawk' while playing much less pronounced, if not eliminating it completely for me.įor "Performance Controls" the only real change I do is setting the Transpose to +22 which tunes it to Bb. On the "Setup Controls" tab I suggest setting breath gain to 64, cranking the devil out of the bite sensor gains because "The sax brothers" barely obeys pitch bend (like a real sax I supposed), the pitch bender gain I suggest a little below middle - around 50 - that setting is for the thumb benders which we're going to remap in a second. You can refer to the screencaps provided to the right for how I have mine set up. The first thing I suggest if you're going to truly enjoy these with the EWI USB is to make a few configuration changes by going into Aria's menu, "Tools -> EWI Configuration".
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Since I already own Kontact Player 5 that's what I run it in for single voice testing though much like Aria it runs well as a VST plugin under Reaper, which is where most of my experience lies.Ĭonfiguring the EWI USB for "The Sax Brothers" The current release (as of time of this writing) comes with and requires Kontact Player 3.5 or newer. They all sound amazing, though it does take a bit of dialing in to get them sounding 'just right'. Upgraded to the newer tech of it's new brethren, the three are released together under the name " The Sax Brothers. Within a year of it's release, it was followed by it's brothers, Mr. not just because they recorded a real one, but because it adds all the control nuances needed to recreate the different timbres to go with volumes, effects like growl and flutter tongue, random expressions that just kind of 'happen' with a real reed (making the sound less uniform) and other complex synthesis methods nothing else has ever come close to. Sax T, their tenor saxophone implementation that, well.
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Of all the software synthesizers to come along the past thirty years, these are the first to truly blow me away.