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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…
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…
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…
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…
This is pretty interesting
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!