@mfanning1: "Hello.   Many years ago up through my college days I played clarinet in the 
college band and sax in a rock band.  I have not played either in many 
years.  While roaming the Musicians Friend I came accross the Yamaha WX5 
midi wind controller and wamo I realized that there was something I might 
really be able to use in conjunction with my keyboard for midi recording. 
I didn't realize such a thing existed.  My question is does anyone here use 
it or anything similar for their work.  Is it something that can be played 
like a sax, or some other wind instrument.  How does it work?  Is is only 
suitable for studio use or can it be used for life performances.   Does 
anyone other than Yamaha make them.   I work extensively with Sonar 4 and 
lately quite a lot of my work is done with Project 5 ver 2.  I use a Yamaha 
P150 keyboard for recording midi tracks and I was thinking that perhaps I 
might want to ad sax and flute parts to some pieces and maybe even use the 
controller for non wind instrument parts playing melody lines.   Any 
feedback on this would be much appreciated.  Many thanks.
M.F.
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    @mfanning1: "Thanks Steve for the links.  The info definetely helped me understand it 
better.
"Steve Karl" <email_address> wrote in message 
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    @mfanning1: "Thanks Beemer for the info and the music links.   I agree with Glennbo- 
great horn playing on those tracks.  Looks like I'll be adding the WX5 to my 
shortlist of gear purchases.   I saw it priced at $549 at Musicians Friend- 
not cheap but not too expensive either. - M.F.
"The Beemer" <email_address> wrote in message 
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    @mfanning1: "Thanks Martin for the useful information. I find it very interesting that 
your band partner can use it for percussion parts in addition to organ, wind 
and synth parts.  The fact that it can be used for instrumental parts other 
than for wind instruments makes it all the more desireable for my work.  I 
just did a search on the internet and found that Akai makes a wind 
controller that is less expensive but I couldn't find very much information 
on it.   It looks like the WX5 is the one for me.
Thanks again.
-M.F.
"Martin Schiff" <mschiff@cdsol*nospam*.com> wrote in message 
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    @Scoobydoo: ""Michael Fanning"  wrote  
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Michael,
    	Chech here for about the best price you'll find on the WX5. 
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    	The Yamaha wind contollers also work great for playing sound fonts with 
VSampler in Sonar if you program VSampler to respond to CC#2.  I use it 
frequently for this purpose."
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