Odisei Music Travel Sax Reviewed
So I guess these are out in the wild now?
Site dedicated to EWI (Akai, Roland, Yamaha and others)
So I guess these are out in the wild now?
I found this interesting….
With the plethora of new “EWIs” out, which I would say fail to really capture what the instrument is, we now have this. Which looks like it is coming soon!
The more I see this instrument, and the SAD offerings now by Akai, Roland, and now Yamaha………I think this is really what people are looking for.
EWI Tool, and open source patch editor for the Akai EWI4000s was shutdown almost 2 years ago. And Akai has since discontinued making the EWI 4000s (stupid decision in my opinion). Seems like if you are a macOS user, you were kinda screwed as if you went to 10.15 (Catalina), you basically couldn’t edit your…
How do you take the venerable Akai EWI, and make it total garbage? You strip away the wireless, make it longer, and give it a shitty speaker. For your pleasure, the “geniuses” at Akai have brought forth…..the EWI Solo.
I like how he’s using Mainstage, and another controller taped(?) to his EWI. Wild stuff!
If you can forgive the Youtube videos they have up of a guy clearly in need of some serious Jonathan Van Ness intervention, a company called Vindor has a intriguing, reasonably priced wind controller that is actually shipping. I believe they had a version 1 of this but I never heard of it. Anyhow, it…
Bret Pimentel has a great article about using an EWI as “silent” practice tool for saxophone, clarinet, or other woodwinds. I agree with his view point.