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bergen · Post by **bergen** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:08 am

I have lots of "polite" sax samples and patches on various hardware and software synths. I want to emulate that hard blown sax sound that sax players often use in solos eg. the sax solo in Joe Cocker's "Unchain My Heart". I was thinking that I might be able to do some kind of FM modulation of the "polite" samples. Does anyone have any tips on generating the sound that I am after?

CinningBao · Post by **CinningBao** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 12:33 pm

FM modulation of samples? i've no idea if that will get you what you want, but I do know that HarmVisser's collection for Reaktor has a very good sax model with an overblow parameter.
I stuck an mp3 up here if you want a listen..

http://www.box.net/shared/olzsp129y7

does that help?

bergen · Post by **bergen** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:09 am

Thats about the right sound but I am not using Reactor - but thanks. The reason that I thought of FM on samples is that approach was used by Yamaha in their very last series of FM synths (SY99) for this kind of effect. I didn't want to waste a lot of time experimenting if someone already knows the recipe.

gsoto · Post by **gsoto** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:44 pm

http://xhip.cjb.net/temp/public/audio/gsoto_sax2.mp3

CinningBao · Post by **CinningBao** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:02 pm

that sounds like sample modulation - a great example of what you might have seen on the SY99.

good work gsoto

gsoto · Post by **gsoto** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:14 am

It's done with Xhip. Here is the thread where it comes from.
But I don't remember exactly how I did it

, I can't find the patch.

guitargeek9 · Post by **guitargeek9** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:12 am

stick a mic in front of a nice sax player. You cannot get a sax players phrasing using a MIDI interface

"overblown" sax sound