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Originally posted by Diki:
Maybe I'm just a bit underwhelmed because I've been using a breath controller since they first came out...?

I still use it on some VERY expressive patches for my K2500 (you can program some extraordinary things doing that) and am pretty familiar with how to use it and program it. Consequently, when I listen to a product that uses one, I am perhaps not coming from the same 'wow!' place that some of you might be, having not used one before...

And, sorry to say, but from that perspective, that first trumpet patch STILL very much left me wanting.


well, I tried the demo version,unfortunately I don't have a mod wheel on my master keyboard so I can't have a full impression of the product. The idea of using a breath controller to me is new, and the K2500 surely is an amazing instrument ( I had a K2000 many years ago and to me was like owning a spaceship )

the 'wow' is see in Wivi is the idea of being able to record, say, a tenor sax riff using a breath controller....the breath controller might not be a new idea, but to me is not that in itself that excites me, but the fact that I could be able to achieve various acoustic effects proper of the acoustic instruments (sax, trumpet etc), without using complicated keyswitching.

On the K2500, the most you can do is controlling bends or LFO effects and the like, with a breath controller, but the new idea on Wivi to me is controlling real sax effects, etc, using breath. I don't think it's the same thing, but that's just me. You seem to have owned a lot more great keyboards than I ever had, so yes my equipment experience is more limited.



[This message has been edited by arranger_yes_pc_no (edited 10-14-2010).]