[A6] My greatest A6 regret

[Richard]

> ...is that I never got it working properly as a windsynth. Regular lists
> members may remember this problem. But I thought I'd give it one more try
> before I give up forever:
>
> I have tried for a long time to get it to work properly with the yamaha
wx5
> windcontroller but the
> dynamic response just never felt right. I found i could never fade a note
> with a smooth envelope properly, (like I can on an obie matrix, akai
vx600,
> evolver or numerous other analogs) the A6 always starts its note a little
> too loud and the dynamic range felt somehow constricted - as if the A6 was
> reading the wx5s CC#2 1-128 as 20-128 or something like that - analysis
with
> midiOX revealed nothing useful as the wx output range is correct.
>
> But there is no theoretical reason why the A6 should not be the greatest
> analog windsynth since the Obie Xpander but.... I corresponded with a
couple
> of guys who were using a breathcontroller with the keyboard but I never
> found anyone else out there who'd even tried to use it as a windsynth. It
> seems to me that the A6 reading of Midi CC#s is compromised in some way
but
> if that is the case it is strange that nobody else has ever commented on
it
>
> If anyone with access to an A6 and windcontroller would like to try and
> develop some wind
> patches together, now or in the future, I'd be very happy to correspond
with
> them....
>
>
> Richard
>