Wind controller

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A wind controller, sometimes referred to as a "wind synth" or "wind synthesizer", can loosely be defined as an electronic wind instrument. Wind controllers are most commonly played and fingered like a saxophone though models have been produced that play and finger like other acoustic instruments such as the trumpet, recorder, tin whistle, and others. A wind controller might convert fingering, breath pressure, bite pressure, finger pressure, and other sensors into control signals which are then used to control internal or external devices such as analog synthesizers, MIDI synthesizers, MIDI softsynths, MIDI sequencers, MIDI lighting systems, etc... A wind controller usually does not make a sound on its own. It usually is connected to some sort of sound generating device such a MIDI or analog synthesizer or sound module/generator which is then connected to an amplifier. For this reason, a wind controller generally can sound like anything depending on the capabilities of the connected sound generator. The fingering and shape of the controller are not related to how the wind controller sounds. For example, woodwind type wind controller could sound like a trumpet, drum, or barking dog, while a brass type wind controller could sound like a saxophone.