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4000 Octave Rollers

April 18, 2015April 3, 2021 djearley 1 Comment

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!

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Akai 2000

April 18, 2015April 3, 2021 3020guy No Comments

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?

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DYI Instruments

April 5, 2015 ericdano 2 Comments

I’ve become fascinated with DYI instruments and synths. This one is really freaking neat. Wonder how cool that would be to hook up to an EWI? Crowminus: A Synthesizer Story Crowminius: A Synthesizer Story – Demo

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Wireless MIDI Interface mi.1

January 1, 2015 ericdano 4 Comments

About 6 months ago, there was an Indiegogo drive for a Wireless Midi interface. It got funded in June.

“Let your old but good digital piano shine again by connecting your iPhone or iPad via Bluetooth wireless MIDI interface.”

Basically, it takes the voltage that is being transmitted on the midi ports and uses that to convert it to Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Which means this little $45 thing you plug in will allow you to talk to your iPad, iPhone, Mac or anything that supports Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth 4).

So, how does this work with an EWI?

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Battery Short In EWI4000s

December 20, 2014April 3, 2021 ericdano 2 Comments

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…

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Hello from New User!

December 20, 2014 SteveS 2 Comments

Hi, this is Steve Scheinberg from the Baltimore, MD area. Found this site, and am newly registered. Looking forward to the discussions and sharing of hints/tips/problems/solutions, etc. I’m a long time jazz sax player, playing pro gigs in this area. I started with a Yamaha WX-11 and Yamaha VL70m with the Patchman chip a little…

Getting my EWI 5000s on Tuesday

December 20, 2014April 3, 2021 ewimaster 1 Comment

Hi Guys! Happy to be part of this Community. Any feedback from you that have played the instrument already? I have played 4000s now for 4 years and thanks to Patchman I have enjoyed every minute of it. Are the patches – sounds -as good on the 5000s as the ad says? What say you?

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I messed up both of my EWI 4000s instruments

December 20, 2014April 3, 2021 ErikSax No Comments

Did this first mistakingly, then intentionally because I could not believe that the cause of the first failure was something so simple. I connected my ISP technologies Theta Preamp foot pedal to my EWI 4000s and then I connected headphones using a patch cord and headphone to mono 1/4″ adapter to the Theta output jack…

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Instruments and Technology

June 14, 2014 ericdano No Comments

Found this via CreateDigitalMusic.com: Very insightful.

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Akai EWI 5000…..MIA

June 13, 2014April 3, 2021 ericdano No Comments

About 6 months ago, Akai announced a revision of it’s EWI instrument, the EWI 5000. No real word on when it was shipping, but places like Sweetwater have it listed as coming in Spring 2014. Well, Spring ends June 20th, a week from today. Is this perhaps a vaporware product?

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