Digital Wind Instruments: could they be a common thing for small band gigs?

I get your point. A closer comparison would 100% be a keyboard and piano. If this thing is analyzing the flow of air, and allowing you to manipulate sounds through that processing, I don’t see how it should be knocked when an electric keyboard has no issue being part of the music we love. Maybe I’m missing why y’all are trashing on this idk lol
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Ideally; it would a digital kazoo with pitch correction and instrument modeling would be the solution for this problem.
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There are also much more portable breath controllers that are used in conjunction with "conventional" guitar synthesizers to control ADSR. I've been tempted by these many times, but it's one more thing to spend forever optimizing, just to have it go belly up in front of an audience...

And in the best case scenario you look like one of those hippies playing guitar and harmonica at the same time. ;)
 
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There two main camps for wind synths. Those who buy one for silent practice and those who buy one as a substitute for a real wind instrument. Then, there are a few nuts like me who use them for playing new synth sounds.

They're instruments just like any other that require a new approach and practice to play well.
 
There two main camps for wind synths. Those who buy one for silent practice and those who buy one as a substitute for a real wind instrument. Then, there are a few nuts like me who use them for playing new synth sounds.

They're instruments just like any other that require a new approach and practice to play well.
As a trumpet player, they definitely don't replace the real thing though.
 
Funny thing is I recently picked up sax again for the first time in ages to play in the orchestra for a musical and I was looking at Aerophones yesterday. Mainly for quiet practice but it would be fun to mess with.
 
I was going to reply about how I use GeoShred for Sax and how good it can sound, but when I looked for a video example I found somebody had gone a step further and was using a guitar to control it… I have everything for this already in my rig, got to try this out:

 
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