Site dedicated to EWI (Akai, Roland, Yamaha and others)
The Akai Professional EWI 4000s was discontinued in June of 2019, after 14 years of its release, but it is still in very high demand. Many consider the 4000s to be the best EWI (after 16 years of its release in 2005) for its sounds that are not compatible with newer EWI models. It is…
Dear all I recently bought the service manual with schematics of the Akai EWV2000 Module. I scanned it and are available at https://github.com/bhamadicharef/Akai-EWV2000-Schematics-Scans Enjoy ! and stay safe ! Best regards Brahim HAMADICHAREF Singapore
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!