Need advice on how to imitate an Irish flute

kerij · Joined: Apr 07, 2009 Posts: 2 Location: colorado

Has anyone played with the synth section to imitate an Irish flute/ tin whistle? I know I'll use the pitch bender to play it live, but I don't know how to synthesize the actual sound. Thanks- any info would be helpful!

gearaholic · Joined: Mar 07, 2009 Posts: 29 Location: f-town

push synth init and choose the sign wave
set the filter freq low to leave only the fundimental
octave shift up
select mono w fast glide

hope it helps

kerij · Joined: Apr 07, 2009 Posts: 2 Location: colorado

Thanks! I'll give it a try

peterkadar · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:33 pm Post subject:

You can try adding some noise from the synth section on panel B to get more of the blowing effect. You could even use an envelope to shape the noise component to sound like the initial burst of air you sometimes hear with a flute.

Also, if you make it trigger in a mono-legato way, it'll only retrigger when you play a new phrase, not unlike the real thing.