Can anyone tell me what might be the best and/or easiest way to create a "horn swell". I have put together a nice Memphis Horn Section type "Program" and I'd like it to "swell" either with pressure or by itself. I worked with the LFO but no luck. I'm obviously missing something. Any help would be appreciated.
For swells I actually find the expression pedal does the best job. I assign specific horns to the expression pedal and use the pedal to introduce and backoff the swells. I found this approach to be the most effective for how I use the horns. Key pressure would also work but I've found I get more expression of the swell with an expression pedal than I do with key pressure. Now if the PC3 used polyphonic aftertouch then key pressure would work great but the polyphonic aftertouch feature is not included on the PC3
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Very smart idea, delaware dave! Thanks for the tip. My problem is I am the band's "horn section" although we have a member who plays sax & keyboards ... I pick up the slack for the sax ... and I stand up to play a stack of 3 keyboards because I'm also the "percussion section" <vbg> There are some orchestras with horns that have built-in "swells" that seem to work with key pressure. I'll take a better look at them and see if there's something I can work with there. But I really like your expression pedal idea. I can see where that would work well. Thanks again!
