I love the sound & wondered if any instrument has a good sounding patch, or even if there was a melodica instrument available/in production?

I have a bunch of samples which are great, but they can't be manipulated as much as I want to.

Love 'em....I've got three! (and a Claviola, which is an Italian Melodica from the 1950s)

Hard to do with synths/samples without a breath controller though.

spectrum

Cheers spectrum. Thoought this might be the kind of reply I'd get. Looks like I'm gonna have to take the plunge & buy one.

Me too!

I got a Hohner melodica piano 26... love that thing.

A Melodica VSTi should have a function to slightly detune the sound, like you can hear it on New Order's "Your Silent Face" from the "Power Corruption & Lies" album!

Pepe

whats a melodica ?

This is a melodica.

... and much easier to handle than a Mac!!!

Pepe

Those poor mac users get dissed at every corner. Leave em alone - it's not their fault! !

I have a few melodicas and a melodium (from Sazuki!) as well as the Claviola too (man that wasn't cheap!) which can actually bend notes and plays in a lower register (sounds like a clarinet cross with a melodica...you can do vibrato on the pipes). I can't believe someone else has one. Figures it would be Spectrum... fellow instrument lover. I've pulled that out on some gigs and it's always "what the..." Very unusual.

We have some melodica samples somewhere. Harmonica samples too (including a bass harmonica- like in the S&G song The Boxer).

You know what I would like to see? Maybe someone can tell me if this exists... a melodica midi controller. Just a small keyboard you can lift up with a breath controller on the end. Yamaha must have made this, one would think. OH! And if it had that GX-1 side to side vibrato that would be just prefect! (I finally got to play one, Spectrum! Someone needs to put something out with this side-to-side aftertouch thing...I didn't know the keyboard moves! Hilarious!)