Keyboarding playing techniques

[bb11]

Are there any good tutorials/ videos/ books even that go over keyboarding techniques? Since I use my MIDI controller to trigger every instrument that I use in my productions it would be really cool to see someone playing brass parts with a keyboard, automating the ADSR in real time, or slightly pulling on the pitch bend (whatever it is).

Also, watching someone play little arpeggiations and flurries might help inspire me to think outside the box with my own play. Thanks in advance

[warrior545]

here you can find some good books on the subject, good luck.

http://musicdm.wordpress.com/2011/01/06 ... io-can-do/

[jancivil]

A it would be really cool to see someone playing brass parts with a keyboard, automating the ADSR in real time, or slightly pulling on the pitch bend (whatever it is).

Also, watching someone play little arpeggiations and flurries might help inspire me to think outside the box with my own play.

There's some good stuff you can find at youtube (say, 'trombone/ribbon controller') if you look around.

I don't know if you're talking about a truly realistic approach with sample libraries, or just about thinking more like a brass player with a synth in your hands. If the former: I don't advise looking at instruments like they're a synth patch {'ADSR'} (unless they are synth patches of course). You have a virtual instrument with enough articulations that are 'real', and a legato that's dynamic, and you're in business.

Pitch bend *can* be useful, but not every sample instrument will work well with a lot of pitch bend, and some not for shit, it's an effect that can give you away as 'a synth' pretty quick. You will not get a very convincing slide trombone with a pitch bend maneuver.

OTOH, more along the lines of *envelope* there is Sample Modeling (eg., 'The Trumpet'), which uses a number of controllers to allow you to shape every part of the sound. For me it's proved to be, honestly, too much work, though I'm very attracted to the idea in theory, I bought a breath controller and an expression pedal behind it...