User Manual

re.corder owner’s manual
Good handling habits:
With respect to a standard acoustic recorder, the user should be
aware of a couple of differences and observing some (very simple)
rules to reach a full experience and create a successful physical
bond with this musical instrument. The re.corder interprets the
position of the fingers, the lips of the player, and the pressure
inside the windway to decide when and which note to play. This
happens hundreds of times per second and there are some ways
to ease this interpretation and obtaining the maximum
performance.
The first difference with an acoustic recorder is that the tone holes
sensors are very sensitive and will detect your finger even when
you don’t fully close the corresponding hole. So, differently from a
standard acoustic recorder, you cannot rest your fingers in the
immediate vicinity of an open hole. This become an automatic
gesture pretty soon and in the first hours of practice you will gain
this habit. A distance of few millimeters will allow the instrument
to consider the hole ‘open’.
The second key point in good handling is that the player should be
aware that, everytime she/he retracts her or his mouth/lips from
the mouthpiece, the re.corder will recalibrate in exactly one
second.
When the execution allows this very short pause, and/or when
you feel a change in breath responsivity, just move away your lips
from the mouthpiece. Again, try to make this become an
automatic gesture so you will be sure that the response of the
recorder will be always at its maximum capability!