Take a look at the video made by digital entrepreneur and musician Doctor Mix and Stefano Lucato, CEO at Audiomodeling: one camera, one keyboard, unlimited potential. If you had to listen to the intro played by Lucato with your eyes closed, we are sure you’d be thinking that he’s playing a set of acoustic double reeds.

SWAM Double Reeds has a great range of expression between the staccato and the legato and is very easy and intuitive to use.

Not only this virtual instrument grants the widest range of musical nuances just by reacting according to the musician’s unique interpretation, but it can also be fully personalized: the player will customize their interpretation of a track by merely focusing on the note on velocity during their execution to control the sound attacks on staccatos and portamento speed on legatos.

This allows any musician to jam in real time  in the easiest and most musical  way, without key switches or complex DAW post production automations.

The SWAM technology allows you to play pretty much any instrument you want simply via a keyboard and a pedal. Everything else is nothing but musical interpretation, as SWAM follows and adapts to the peculiarities of your style, delivering a unique auditory result every time.

And that’s not even the half of it: just by assigning the proper feature to the aftertouch, SWAM allows the musician to also play harmonics.

We are just scratching the surface: many expressive sound parameters can be assigned and controlled in real time: in this case the harmonics can be played by the keyboard aftertouch.

Listen to this!

In less than two minutes, Stefano Lucato (musician and CEO at Audio Modeling) and pianist, music producer and digital entrepreneur Doctor Mix (Claudio Passavanti) will show you how versatile and evolved the new generation of virtual instruments by Audio Modeling can be. 

Notice the subtle variation in the sounds and the flawless movements through different sound ranges: this is what SWAM Violin can and will do for a musician. And the widest range of expressions can be conveyed simply through a keyboard and a pedal.

Lucato explains how the “note-on” velocity influences the attack of the sound when playing Staccatos and the speed of the portamento when playing Legatos: high-velocity notes during legato notes allow a quick portamento; vice versa, a low-velocity note grants a slower portamento. 

The Vibrato amount is controlled by the modulation wheel. The Expression pedal controls the Dynamic.

It is amazing the realism you can get with a common MIDI keyboard controller and a pedal!

A keyboard, a pedal and a musician are the three crucial ingredients to allow SWAM Cello to sound precisely like a real instrument. 

Lucato has previously explained how playing with the bow position, by moving it close to the neck or the bridge, can make a difference in the auditory result of an interpretation. The same principle applies to SWAM Cello as well, where the bow position can be assigned to a knob to always guarantee a constant, flawless control of every little nuance of your interpretation.

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The SWAM Flutes technology delivers a wide spectrum of sound results and hence several different styles, spanning from simple classical sounds to more elaborate and expressive results such as those typical of ethnic music. 

One of the peculiarities of SWAM lies in its absolute simplicity of use. The interpretation and different sound variations don’t need any modifications on an interface level, as they all come from the way the musician plays the keyboard. 

New-generation virtual instruments like SWAM focus completely on the player’s musical skills and taste which, in this case, fully expresses the characters and styles of the flutes.

In less than a minute and a half, and starting from a fascinating intro played by Lucato, you’ll have the chance to explore some of the features of the most evolved virtual viola on the market. 

Close your eyes and listen: It sounds like a real instrument, doesn’t it?

That’s the potential of SWAM: creating a synergy with the musician’s personal interpretation, and not simply reproducing a sound. 

Expression, portamento: by assigning MIDI to a knob, you can have all of that and so much more.

Here’s how a simple keyboard and pedal become all you need to play different styles and genres. 

This is Doctor Mix reaction and questions about SWAM Clarinets:

“So, the SWAM Clarinet, I mean, this sounds really special. I’ve heard you do this sort of ethnic kind of attitude that you can pull that off with that. It’s amazing!

But listen, this does something that I haven’t heard do on the (SWAM) Saxophone because, of course, the saxophone cannot do it: you can do long portamentos! How do you pull that off? How do you do it?”

Watch the full video for the answers by Stefano Lucato.

Discover the best virtual clarinets on the market and find out how a virtual instrument can be as expressive and realistic as is natural counterpart in the video below.

In less than three minutes, you will have the chance to learn the tricks to squeeze the best out of the most advanced virtual saxophone ever conceived for musicians, composers and producers. Stefano Lucato explains how SWAM is based on a technology that uses a multi-vector sample morphing into a combination of physical modeling. The virtual instrument allows you to shape and control the sound like you would do with a real instrument. To the point that you can even hear the clicking of the keys – a detail that Doctor Mix notices right away!

After being surprised by the growl, triggered by after-touch, Claudio finds out a breath controller that can be mapped to the expression of SWAM Saxophones. To obtain a result that sounds more than natural: it does sound real in every way that counts.

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In this video, Claudio and Stefano explore SWAM through an engaging back and forth of questions and answers. They also give you a panoramic view of the most evolved virtual instrument technology on the market and, above all, they do it through practical examples.

Experiencing, testing, playing and jamming are the best strategies to discover the SWAM engine. The duo starts by highlighting the differences between a traditional sample instrument and a modeled instrument. Then they talk about the musician perspective when playing SWAM: a totally different concept that changes the conditions and mindset of sound emission. A perfect mix, between the emotional approach of every single player and scientific research theory by Professor Julius Smith (CCRMA – Stanford University).

Learn how vibrato, legato and portamento work on SWAM through the Camelot host and the difference between a prerecorded sample and a real time algorithm working differently with every single musician, composer or producer, according to their style, taste and personality. SWAM is the first set of virtual instruments that react like real instruments.

[Doctor Mix]: “Are you aware that what you’re doing here is fantastically futuristic?”

[Stefano Lucato]:“Yes, I think that physical modeling is a future technology. I don’t know why it has been abandoned in the past,” replies Lucato.

[Doctor Mix]:“Because it’s hard, but clearly not for you,”.

What do you think? Has the future already become the present when it comes to virtual instruments?