@noldar12 said:
Mazeka, a couple comments on two of your questions:
1) Portamento is a specific strings effect, and is achieved by keeping the string depressed against the fingerboard while sliding up the string. It is not a woodwind technique.
Wiki cites 'Stowell 2001' ["PORTAMENTO (II)"
THE NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS , SECOND EDITION ] per "and its emulation by members of the violin family and certain wind instruments"
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portamento
(originated from the Italian
expression "portamento della voce" (carriage of the voice), denoting
from the beginning of the 17th century a vocal slide between two pitches). also used all the time per synthesizers, in fact hardwired into many designs. So I don't think your restricting it to string practice is supportable.
the famous clarinet bit in Rhapsody in Blue is properly called a portamento.
if you don't have the sample for it, it isn't really going to do.