I've been desiring a wind controller for quite some time. I finally decided ... not to get one.
I forced myself to think about what I really want to do. Rather than wanting to perform someplace, I'd rather make recordings of some instrumental pieces I can only find sheet music for. As an example, I'm very fond of Peter Schickele's serious music. I've been looking for a decent copy of "Spring Serenade" for flute and piano ever since I stopped living in Buffalo NY and could no longer check the record -- vinyl, folks! -- out of the downtown library. There's a performance on YouTube, but it's live and the quality isn't that great.
This isn't exactly new for me. I've done this type of thing back in the 80s and 90s. The two big changes are that I can now use a computer scanner to scan in a score and I can now use virtualized instruments -- no physical instrument; all sound is created by your computer.
I've downloaded a bunch of different trial software, my wife is going to get our POS MIDI electronic keyboard out of storage, and I just put in an order for a MIDI interface (that's the thing that allows the electronic keyboard to communicate with the computer).
Wish me luck!
I forced myself to think about what I really want to do. Rather than wanting to perform someplace, I'd rather make recordings of some instrumental pieces I can only find sheet music for. As an example, I'm very fond of Peter Schickele's serious music. I've been looking for a decent copy of "Spring Serenade" for flute and piano ever since I stopped living in Buffalo NY and could no longer check the record -- vinyl, folks! -- out of the downtown library. There's a performance on YouTube, but it's live and the quality isn't that great.
This isn't exactly new for me. I've done this type of thing back in the 80s and 90s. The two big changes are that I can now use a computer scanner to scan in a score and I can now use virtualized instruments -- no physical instrument; all sound is created by your computer.
I've downloaded a bunch of different trial software, my wife is going to get our POS MIDI electronic keyboard out of storage, and I just put in an order for a MIDI interface (that's the thing that allows the electronic keyboard to communicate with the computer).
Wish me luck!
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