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It has a very detailed translation of the various components of the sax sound, much more detailed than clip-on mics for example, but its positioning in the saxophone makes it almost totally insensitive to feedbacking, which is a life-saver when working with FXs, especially when I wanted to be able to use powerful modulations while playing very soft. It allowed me to imagine new modulations which I thought impossible to perform live. I also love using my voice on stage. Whether I’m actually singing, vocoding, reading texts or ‘shouting’ notes between the saxophone lines the way West African flute players do, I always need a vocal mic. I wanted to separate it as much as possible from the saxophone signal path, so that I could treat and manipulate them separately. I therefore experimented again with various microphones, from a shotgun mic pointed at my throat, to 4 different contact microphones strapped to my throat, but the source of the saxophone sound being located right in the mouth as much as at the bell of the instrument, it proved quite impossible to separate the sources sufficiently and I chose to go for a traditional vocal mic which would in return offer me the best sound when I am actually singing (the sound quality of the ‘throat mics’ was too poor to use for anything else than growling effects). I do keep separate signal paths for sax and vocal mics and manage to treat them differently to a certain extend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53a2b639e4b0a429a26518ee/1edf1e1e-c4eb-4569-9b2f-861b33c7cdfb/shopping.jpeg instruments Controlling the software Playing saxophone keeps your hands pretty busy, so I have a foot controller, but I somehow ended up controlling most the FXs by hand, again because the fine tuning is fundamental, and after trying different configuration, I decided I was ready to accept that I would sacrifice some of my hand motricity to the controllers. I use the foot controller, 2 midi controllers such as this one and my iPad. I usually assign one controller to my sax FXs and one to my loopers and sampler and their dediated FXs, the sax FX controller can be switched to vocal mic processing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53a2b639e4b0a429a26518ee/3192f5da-65a9-4160-ab14-d81cdb668dec/IMG_0092.PNG instruments Ipad and Max For Live Additionally I built my own templates for my iPad with Touch OSC and use it to send midi signals to control various things such as the pitch shifter presets or the sampler/slicer. This slicer is an interesting tool created in Max For Live by Benjamin Van Esser. It allows for live recording and slicing of a music fragment, and triggering of the slices through midi signals. 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