Apnea was written for composers Ed Shearmur and Tim Jones.  The request was this:  we wanted to be able to use the sensitive and expressive breath controller from a WX-5, but play polyphonically from a standard MIDI keyboard.  The kicker though, was making each new breath attack create a new note-on and note-off relationship instead of just being the wave of a controller over a long, held MIDI note.  The problem with the single held note is that it makes it very tough to edit some notes if you want to change them, and it causes havok in sheet music transcription from a sequencer.  Thus, Apnea was born.  It ended up doing much more than that, and can make for a useful utility for any wind controller player.

The main features:

1. 1) Apnea lets you take individual parts of a MIDI message from different sources and have them only sent out as a full MIDI note when a specified MIDI controller is above a certain value.
   

2. 2)All incoming controller data can be remapped to other controllers (i.e., what came in as breath data can go out as mod wheel or volume CC’s.)
   

3. 3)You can smooth incoming controller data and scale its range. 
   

4. 4)All these settings can be stored into presets and recalled from a preset XML file.
   

5. 5)Sustain pedal lets you hold phrases for taking a breath on a wind controller or breath sensor.
   

If you find this software useful or have suggestions, I’d always love to hear your story.  Just contact me.