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The Magic Flute
Improvise or play a well-known melody
Comes with more then 100 sounds + MIDI + programmable = Endless Possibilities
Easy accessible – for starters or skilled musicians.
The Magic Flute was originally designed as an adaptive musical instrument for people
with little or no arm movement --with the goal of allowing people with a wide range of
disabilities the ability to perform live electronic music that can be at the highest
professional quality. It is also an exciting and rewarding way for people who have
limited lung function to carry out Breathing Exercises that will never become tedious
to them.
The Magic Flute is not only an instrument but also acts as the remote control for the
Control Module (sip & puff).
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Summary of Contents for HouseMate Magic Flute
- Page 1 It is also an exciting and rewarding way for people who have limited lung function to carry out Breathing Exercises that will never become tedious to them. The Magic Flute is not only an instrument but also acts as the remote control for the Control Module (sip & puff).
- Page 2 We want you either in your local school band or playing a professional gig with your new group live on stage! We want you to be able to pursue music the way that you have always dreamed no matter what physical condition you may have encountered in your life's journey! You can play hundreds if not thousands of musical sounds from saxophone, trumpet, pan flute and other breath instruments to guitar, drums, piano for just starters -- and we challenge you to give this instrument a try.
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Page 3: Getting Started
Getting started A quick start guide: You must plug the flute into the control module BEFORE you connect the power supply. Connect the power supply and keep the flute still during the calibration. The flute has to be in a horizontal position. Connect the Audio output to external active loudspeakers or use a MIDI* cable to connect the MIDI output of the Control Module to the MIDI input from your musical instrument or computer**. -
Page 4: Getting Into Details
"drift" rapidly. This symbol tells you that you have to keep the Magic Flute still for 45 seconds. If 45 seconds looks long then beware of the fact that the Magic Flute is using new technology and stands really on the edge of what is possible today. - Page 5 The harder you blow the harder the sound will be. This is because the magic flute sends breath control* data. To select a different note rotate the flute up or down and blow into the mouth piece again.
- Page 6 – Extra note +5 – Extra note +7 – Change to Memory 1 scale – Change to Memory 2 scale – Play Memory 3 notes - Play Memory 4 notes Example Let’s say you play the note G within a C Major scale (C D E F G A B C) If you select “Sharps/Flats”, then pressing a switch will turn it in a G flat (G#) .
- Page 7 Cleaning the mouthpiece If the Magic Flute is being used by more then one person then you have to clean the mouthpiece after every session. First use an alcohol-based hand sanitiser that contains at least 60% alcohol to clean your own hands.
- Page 8 Display - The Magic Flute The Magic Flute Menu. ► Go ► Select one of the 30 Default scales or ► Select one of the 4 Memory scales ► Select one of the instruments from the internall soundcard ► Select MIDI channel (1-16) ►...
- Page 9 ► Chancel ► Semitone ► Transpose ► Correct Drift ►Yes ►No ► Attack ►200 MS recommended when internal sound card is used ►100 MS (=milliseconds) ► 50 MS recommended when external MIDIdevice is used ► Note changes ►slow ►normal ►fast ►...
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Page 10: Setups - The Magic Flute
A keyboard, sound module, sampler, synthesiser, MIDI organ, a software synthesiser or sampler on a computer - it can all be used as a sound source for the Magic Flute. As long as it has got a MIDI input, you're in business. -
Page 11: Sound Module
("TIP" small computer monitors: Behringer MS16). "TIP" the Yamaha VL70-m is perhaps the most expressive synth ever made when coupled to a wind controller like the Magic Flute. It provides computer-based "physical modeling" technology which accurately simulates the complex vibrations,... - Page 12 Question, do I need an external sound source for the Magic Flute? The Magic Flute has a very good internal sound card with 128 different sounds. But in this case we use the Magic Flute as a MIDI* controller and hook it up to a computer. We use the computer as the sound source.
- Page 13 It samples your breath pressure at some set sampling rate. It digitizes that breath pressure to a value between 1 and 127. If you want to get the most out of the Magic Flute, you'll need your sound source tuned to understand these breath control messages. Some soft synths/MIDI sound modules can be programmed to work, others cannot, others can to a certain degree.
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Page 14: The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute. Scales The default pre-recorded scales. 4 (060) = Middle C Scale 1 Simple Scale 2 C Major Scale 3 D Minor Scale 4 Blues 1 Scale 5 Blues 2 Scale 6 Recorder Scale 7 G Major Scale 8 Hava nagila... - Page 15 Exsamples of other scales that you could program: Black keys only Gypsy Em Additional accessories. Mouth piece with Bacterial Filter Tube extension mouth piece. The Magic Flute stop. The Magic Flute handles (designed for people with cerebral palsy). Magic Flute High stand. Improvisation Play along CD.
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