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After a few years of building in the background, Hemiola is finally ready for real players. The beta is open, access is free, and I need people who know what a wind controller actually sounds like...
It's been a few months since I got the new Aerophone AE-30 Pro wind instrument produced by Roland. As many others have reported,the upper octave key (+1) tends to get sticky in time, which is exactly…
More or less 10 years ago I published my first video on YouTube. It was an Akai EWI version of the famous Prelude in G major from J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite I. This piece has been played with…
A few weeks ago I found an excellent deal on the Aerophone AE-10G from Amazon Warehouse and I bought one. I had been hesitant for months because, being a recorder player: the ae10 is clearly aimed at…
Hello fellow Miniers, here is the fouth and final part of my Octave Exercises for the Aerophone Mini, please read the first article of this series first (and eventually the second one and the third…
Hello guys, here is the third part of my Octave Exercises for the Aerophone Mini, please read the first article of this series first (and eventually the second one). This time we are going to focus…
Hi guys, a short post just to share with you a small trick I discovered some time ago. Every time we switch the Mini on, the breath sensor (the electronic component responsible for measuring the air…
Here we go with the 2nd part of my Octave Exercises, please read the first article of this series first. With this exercise we use all melodic intervals on the whole instrument range. In particular,…
Generally speaking, one of the most challenging technical aspects in playing a woodwind instrument is in the left thumb technique or the technique of octave passages. Even with Wind controllers, this…
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Personally, I don't appreciate much the current color of the Aerophone Mini. As explained below, some time ago I started literally smoothing all corners of the Mini with the aid of some fine…
I have been sort of challenged by a Facebook Recorder Group moderator to justify why I shared my post about Aerophone Mini alternate fingerings for the recorder player in said group. The question was…
Being a recorder player, when I first tried the Aerophone Mini two were the things that bothered me immediately: the presence of click-clack keys and the sax-style mouthpiece. Many have complained…
Hello guys, almost another month has passed, things here in Italy are slowly going back to normal after Covid19 and my available time to the app is slowly reducing... Nonetheless, there are a few big…
EDIT 26/06/2020: A new preview post has been published here. Hi guys, one entire month has passed since my last post here and many things have happened to my not-so-little-any-more Android companion…
EDIT 26/06/2020: A new preview post has been published here. EDIT 29/05/2020: A new preview post has been published here. Ok, I must really be in love of this little thing because I spent my last…
With the Aerophone Mini, Roland wants us to use rechargeable AA batteries only. From the user manual: If you are using the Aerophone mini on batteries, insert four Ni-MH batteries (AA). I am not…
I wanted to make some modifications to my Aerophone Mini (more on that soon), so I had to open it up. Here are some photos of its internals. [](<index.htmlslideshow1586081693098 "Precedente")…
Specifications (from Roland website) Key Layout | Recorder type ---|--- Sound Generator | PCM synthesizer Tones | 6 Effect | Reverb Controllers | Breath sensor, Performance keys, Octave keys,…
Here are a few links to useful pages on the Internet. This page is constantly updated. Please write to me to suggest new links. Info & Resources Roland Official product page|…
If you look closely at the official fingering chart of the Aerophone Mini, you will notice that all the suggested fingerings for chromatic notes (flats and sharps) require the use of the left pinky…