Putting It All Together

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Now, let’s create a full-blown flute patch. Let’s include the following features:

• Air pressure from either an envelope generator or breath controller
• Tuning every 4 notes
• Tuned overblowing, up to 2 octaves
• Nice-sounding legato transitions
• Vibrato directed to the embouchure pitch
• Growling
• Breath noise created from pulsed noise
• Velocity-to-amplitude modulation
• EQ and waveshaping
• Reverb

Variation 1 will be controlled by the envelope generator, and variation 2 will be controlled by the breath controller. The two concepts are so similar that we might as well have a single patch do both.

Variation 1 (non-breath-controlled) will have these modulation sources and destinations:

Source	Destination
Mod wheel	Harmonic
Keyboard velocity	Output level
Footswitch	Growl
Pitch stick	Pitch

Variation 2 (breath-controlled) will have these modulation sources and destinations:

Source	Destination
Mod wheel	Harmonic
Breath controller	Air pressure, output level, overdrive amount, parametric EQ gain
Footswitch	Growl
Pitch stick	Pitch

The patch is just too big to try to put on the screen, so it can be found here. Unlike the previous flute patches, the FX area contains EQ and reverb modules.

Some final notes

• This flute is tuned from C3 through C8, instead of from C2 through C7. A real flute can’t play anything below C4 anyway, and raising the ceiling to C8 lets us play into the piccolo range.

• There are some new SeqCtr modules installed. These come into play when the embouchure pitch is raised (via the mod wheel in this patch). They help to tune the harmonics. They also raise the loop filter frequency a little. Otherwise, such high pitches can’t be sustained.

• Try changing the bore and embouchure Feedback levels (constant modules currently set at 32.0).

• A Master Oscillator module has been added, so that the entire patch can be easily tuned and transposed.

• There are now two bell filters, one for each bore delay. The note-to-note crossfading is now done after the bell filter, instead of before. This helps minimize note-to-note clicks, since the cutoff frequencies of the bell filters now change from note to note, via a SeqCtr module.