Show HN: Anyma V, a hybrid physical modelling virtual instrument (opens in new tab)

If you care about wind controllers, you might "easily" be able to make one for yourself with a pressure sensor (one with HX710B chip looks good), standard 4 to 2.5mm pneumatic tubing, Y-piece, melodica tube and a mouthpiece, and RP2040 that converts the pressure sensor input into USB MIDI in. Costs a couple of bucks.

Last year I slaked my curiosity and eBay'd a Yamaha EW20 about for about hundred credits. The EW20 is a student grade wind synthesizer made for a future that never was - a future where synthesizers were an ordinary part of music education. The sound module has four OP FM (but only presets), a single primitive modulation thumb control, and DIN MIDI.

Of course, DIN MIDI means any synthesis engine is only a cable away modulo budget. So timbrely it's not student grade and about the same faff as Yamaha's WX series of professional wind controllers.

For me, making sound with my breathing is amazingly satisfying (when I do so and am here reminded that I should do it again soon) and a wind controller strings my notes together in ways that really can't be replicated by plucking or striking. [0] Modulo I can't play anything beyond the radio well and don't have the chops for MPE...

Anyway, the product is not for me because my jam is as dawless as possible and I vastly prefer bespoke hardware interfaces. But that's my jam, not yours.

[0] I played trumpet for four years until I was kicked out of band in 8th grade and sold my beat-up Olds at a garage sale when I was thirty without regret.