Site dedicated to EWI (Akai, Roland, Yamaha and others)
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…
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?
For the Winter 2014 NAMM show, Akai has announced a new EWI. EWI 5000 comes loaded with more than 3GB of top-quality sounds, including traditional horn, brass, woodwind, and string sounds, plus progressive synths, leads, and other non-traditional sounds. EWI 5000 includes 12 touch-sensitive metal keys on its top and an eight-wheel thumb- controlled octave…
I first published this in 2012 on Jazz-Sax.com. I have had an Akai EWI4000S for a while now (5 years? More?) I should probably at some point do a review of it and why you should get the 4000S instead of the crippled USB only version (or maybe that is the review?). But what I…
Someone asked me about this recently, and I honestly totally forgot that the Akai EWI 4000S has different fingering modes. If you too forgot, refresh yourself here (reference manual). I suppose if you are coming from another instrument, say Oboe, flute, clarinet, saxophone, or trumpet, switching the EWI into a mode that emulates the fingerings…
We live in an awesome age. We have little 4 inch devices that are more powerful than computers that were made less than 8 years ago. Now, there is this very interesting instrument, an Artiphon. CNN had an article on it: Is it a guitar? Is it a piano? Nope, it is a crazy iPhone-powered…
Some excellent playing here. Check out Alistair’s site as well.
Somewhere, I lost the middle piece in the picture. The clip in part where you put the batteries into. I’ve contacted Akai once or twice, and they will send the clip in part, but not the metal connector part. Seems like that is a separate part that screws into it. Anyone have any ideas on…