The DynaSample sound modules work perfectly with most wind controllers like the Akai EWI, Yamaha WX5 or YDS, Synthophone, Roland Aerophones and many more . . . There are many global settings for making even initially "non-working" wind controllers quite usable. Full MIDI CC remapping with advanced features (like an input window and output scaling) is available globally and per patch! So, there is no need for storing these settings on your wind controller. The DynaSample units can easily compensate for any of the missing features that might come with some newer (costly) wind controllers and add even more features on top of it. Like for example the MIDI key remote control, that lets you control pretty much everything with your wind controller. It also allows recalling patches without taking your hands of your instrument. (You could also use foot switches for this. Two pedals and four foot switches can be connected directly.) If you want to upgrade your performance, there is no need for spending extra money on a new wind controller, as long as your current controller is working well for you. I'd rather recommend spending this money on good and responsive sounds that get you considerably closer to an exciting „acoustic feeling“ performance. With your current wind controller in combination with the XO-mini you will be immediately on the top level of playing wind synths! ___________________________________________ The XO-mini is very portable and most likely the smallest "Hi-End" sound module that you can find. If you want to, you can wear the XO-mini on your body and play it with a small power bank. Instead of using the error prone wireless MIDI, you can use a wireless audio transmitter for transmitting a "perfectly working" audio signal. (Wireless MIDI never worked for me on stage because of the overcrowded 2.4 GHz band).

So, the units cover basically anything that you will ever need on stage (for playing wind instruments) in one small box - without the need of any additional computer - neither for playing nor for editing. All of the standard orchestral wind instruments and saxophone patches - ready to play - are onboard. Plus, quite a few more other instruments . . . 1,280 user patches are available for storing your own creations. ___________________________________________ The modules are being developed by a pro wind player and not by keyboard players as it is the case with most other software or hardware instruments. This means that the modules give you a playing sensation of actually blowing into a wind instrument. Everything responds naturally to your tonguing, dynamics and vibrato. There are natural playing techniques for instrument specific techniques instead of key-switches. These techniques could be brass falls, false fingerings, string position changes and much more. It definitely won't feel like blowing into a crippled keyboard as it is the case with other sound generators . . .

You can use both - sampled acoustic instruments or analog style synth sounds - separately or layered. There is a Chord-Mapper built in for playing unison or polyphonic sections without an additional computer.

The DynaSample sound modules XO-mini and XpressO are modelling acoustic behavior by using samples. This makes them sound much more natural than a pure Physical Modelling sound generator (e.g. Yamaha VL70-m / SWAM, etc.) or old style [last millennium] sampling (e.g. Roland & pretty much the rest). Acoustic modelling generates sounds that are as flexible as it gets - with an endless number of articulation and sound variations. It also allows playing techniques that were not possible up until now . The samples are not there for mimicking as many different articulations as possible, but for capturing the instrument in a comprehensive way to represent it in all possible dynamic variations as a „waveform“. This can be done with just one "optimal" sample per semitone. Articulations, timbre changes and more are completely taken care of by the software. So, the samples actually represent, what would be called the "model" in Physical Modelling. Using samples only for the characteristic of the instrument and then software for doing everything else, is what makes the playability so outstanding! ___________________________________________ The DynaSample sound modules give you some features that were previously only possible with Physical Modelling, like e.g. overblowing into the octave. You have full control over the sound and behavior of the samples in real-time. These "acoustic modelling" techniques recreate - in realtime - the modulations, that happen inside of a wind instrument by manipulating the samples directly on a low level. Most of the here used techniques are unique to DynaSample and don't exist elsewhere. Everything is editable. Full patch editing can be done at home by connecting a full HD HDMI monitor and a USB mouse. There are more than 500 parameters just for the patches plus hundreds of global parameters. On stage you would typically only use the small LCD display for recalling patches or making minor changes.

DynaSample Acoustic Modelling