Tour of All Akai EWI Models
Great video!
Category: Akai EWI
EWI4000s Compared with Real Sax?
Is the Ewi 4000s that I bought in a different tone , compared to my real Alt Saxophone? wich Number of the 100 one’s in this instrument is the best for a normal Saxophone Sound? Hope someone can help me, thanks, Marian
Review: Suonopuro EWI Sound Library
If you are an EWI 4000S owner, you probably have outgrown the factory presets. And perhaps you already own or know about Patchman’s great presets. So now what? You could design your own patches using the Akai editor. Or you could grab some interesting patches with EWITool2’s patch exchange. There is now another option for…
EWI Tool 2 Released
Stephen Merrony has released EWI Tool 2 for Windows, OS X, and GNU/Linux. You can grab a copy here. Go check it out!
EWI Tool 2 Enters Public Beta
Steve Merrony has released the first public beta of EWI Tool 2 (rewritten in Java) to the internet Please see https://github.com/SMerrony/EWItool2/wiki/Using-EWItool before installing and using this release. OS X users please note especially prerequisite number 4. The jar file below should run on all modern versions of Windows, OS X and Linux providing that the…
EWI Tool Moving to Java
A couple of months ago, Stephen Merrony, the creator of the free EWI4000s patch editor announced he was going to rewrite the thing in Java. While still not idea, Java is worlds better than whatever it was written in (QT?). Now he is looking for people to test out a beta of it. If you…
Modified EWI 4000s
This is pretty interesting
4000 Octave Rollers
I have been playing the 4000 for just about a year. Can someone help me with the best ways to ensure that I don’t get “strange and unexpected” attack sounds as I move through the octaves while playing. I seems that my thumb is never properly? Any ideas on the best technique? Thanks!
Akai 2000
I own a 2000 module and Patchman refuses to tinker with mine. All I wish to have done is to tweak the patches so they all run smooth. Does anyone know of any other source that can troubleshoot one of these units?
Battery Short In EWI4000s
So, after all the work I did getting the battery clip thing, the batteries somehow shorted out and basically melted the battery area in my EWI4000s. The EWI still works fine using the AC Power adapter, but battery part is totally useless. I suppose I could call up Akai again and see if I could…