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An Open Controller For Woodwind Instruments

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From Hackaday.com: Engineers, hackers, and makers can most certainly build a musical gadget of some kind. They’ll build synths, they’ll build aerophones, and they’ll take the idea of mercury delay line memory, two hydrophones, and a really long tube filled with water to build the most absurd delay in existence. One thing they can’t seem…

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Michael Brecker Archive

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Steve Neff has a great article about Michael Brecker’s addition to the Living Jazz Archive. Steve Neff’s Blog Post: Dr. David Demsey at William Paterson University contacted me a few years ago to tell me about the “Living Jazz Archives” that the University was building and how they were adding a Michael Brecker Archive to…

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Roland Doubles Down On The Aerophone

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I like the Roland company. They have a history of making great products. Roland Keyboards, Keyboard Amps, Sound modules, and of course the Roland V-Drums. However, their Aerophone is a rather questionable entry for the company. They are now doubling down on the Aerophone, introducing the Aerophone GO. I think this is their attempt to…

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CMUSE Recommendations On EWIs

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Sometimes, there are bad reviews. This is one of them.

CMUSE (which I’ve never heard of) did a list of the 4 Best Electric Wind Instruments. Basically, it sucks.

They put the EWI5000 at the top, followed by the Roland Aerophone, then the EWI5000 USB, and THEN the EWI4000S. They list the “cons” on the EWI4000S as “no specific synthesized sounds, no specific instrument is set for the electronic wind instrument”. WTF?

How about the CON on the EWI USB as “you need a freaking computer to get it to do sounds?”. And the “Pros” on the Roland Aerophone is “Sturdy. Has onboard monitors as well as headphone output playing anytime and anywhere”. WTF? The EWI 4000S had headphone output? Mention that? Nope.

Basically my list would be Akai EWI5000 and EWI4000 at the top, and maybe the Yamaha WX5, and then maybe the Roland Aerophone, and last would be the EWI USB. So lame.

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