Hey, I guess this might be off topic, but I'm just taking it as a general "music maker" thread.
1) Is there decent free software to synthesize wind instruments? I'm thinking about buying a midi wind controller (which senses breath pressure and lip pressure) and combine it with one of those button-grids for choosing the notes (with breath pressure for loudness/articulation/techniques like frullato and maybe lip pressure for adjusting the note up and down if I want), but I'm not sure what software I need to actually operate it (i.e. record and play wind instruments, in particular the recorder). Would also be interested to create my own custom digital instruments to play like that, but haven't got a clue about how to do that.
2) Could you recommend a microphone for recording one instrument or voice at a time? Good enough to allow mixing several recordings together, for example I could sing one part and play three different parts on different recorders and would then want to mix those together. I'm not "audiophile", if it's good enough to sound decent on my $50 headphones it's enough.
How cheap can I go (definitely not more expensive than $100, preferably less) without getting something completely crappy? What kind of microphone would you recommend?
Especially 2) I guess I could still do some research work on my own, but if you know a simple answer or tips they would be welcome.
(and just on the topic of my music skill set: I play the recorder pretty good, sing much worse than that but I guess okay for a start. Not a composer, no experience with making digital music. If I get a decent microphone I might record some pieces and share them here at some point maybe)
