Site dedicated to EWI (Akai, Roland, Yamaha and others)
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…
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…
Looking for a way to manage your EWI other than EWITool and the Akai Vyzex program? Great news, there is an iPad editor called Midi Quest that works GREAT. It requires a $49.95 in-app purchase to unlock the whole thing, but it might be a good alternative for people who use more iPad music things…
I’m currently working on getting a Dell 7040 SFF computer up and running with Omnisphere 2.0. Matt’s rig is pretty sweet though.
Want to get a EWI but don’t want to spend $700 or so? Check this out. MiniWI woodwind MIDI controller is a Hackaday.io project for those who are fairly comfortable working with electronics and love to take on DYI projects. This looks really really cool, and I might try to make one soon…..after that arduino…
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
Roland has introduced a new Digital Wind Instrument. Awesome! All the saxophone sounds you need in one instrument Nothing beats the sound of your favorite acoustic sax, but sometimes its tone might not be quite right for the job at hand. Whatever scenario you’re playing in, the Roland Aerophone AE-10 has the onboard digital sax…
Hi All I’m a lucky owner of the wonderfull VL70m, VL1m, S90 with 3 PLGVLs and a WX5 controller and EWI 4000. A few years ago I decided to remove the dust from my VL70m and get deep into the secrets of this synth. So, I took on the challenge to build a new VL70-m…
Stephen Merrony has released EWI Tool 2 for Windows, OS X, and GNU/Linux. You can grab a copy here. Go check it out!
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…