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On the one hand, it looks kinda cool with the sliding and stuff. If you go to their YouTube page, they have some sort of private demo.
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The comprehensive software system provides a wealth of musical performance features, including playback of its own native instruments, many common software plugins, soundfonts or midi instruments. This gives almost endless possibilities for flexible keyboard layouts, fast instrument switching and expressive musical control. The Alpha can play and record loops, change scale and key, transpose, alter tempo, program beats, create arrangements, switch and layer multiple sounds, all while the musician is performing live on stage.Īvailable in a variety of finishes, it has 120 highly sensitive keys, 12 percussion keys, 2 strip controllers, a breath pipe and numerous pedal inputs. The unique design of the keys makes this the most expressive electronic musical instrument ever made.
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“A professional level instrument which allows the musician to play and improvise using a limitless range of sounds with virtuoso skill. I’m not really sure what to make of this. Check out his Windcontroller links for some additional ones.
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If anyone knows of some other resources for EWIs please feel free to post about it. Hands down, it is probably the best EWI related site I have seen. He has tons of patches he has made, tutorials, tips, tricks……basically everything. If you play EWI (USB or the 4000S) you will want to buy Reason to use with it. The other site to check out is EWI Reason Sounds which Chris Vollstadt has put together. Some amazing environments (think Michael Brecker’s Logic setup), tutorials and more. Saxophonist John Isley has a site called which is an excellent source of using Logic and an Akai EWI together. Some other sites that are EWI related or focused: It seems to be a better editor than Vyzex is/was……and at least it is getting updated more frequently. There is a project called ewitool which looks very nice, but it only works on Windows and Linux…….no Mac.
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Akai seems to have stopped with the software updates (not that it needs it) but things like the Vyzex Editor seem to work OK on the latest version of OS X, but the software itself has not had an update in 5 years…….yikes! In fact, there seems little movement right now in the whole EWI sphere. There was a wealth of information on wind controllers and stuff. Once Upon A Time….there was a great site called. Which got me to thinking….is it possible to take what I think is a severally crippled Akai USB EWI, and use an iPhone as the synth/controller? Hmmm…. The ‘brain’ of such devices is already in your pocket, so why not use it? Commenting on the Artiphon Instrument 1, Gil Weinberg, organizer of the competition and director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, said: “In general, I’m a big believer in using the capabilities of smart phones to power novel hardware. In 2008 the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition was established to showcase and recognize the invention of new musical instruments. The Artiphon Instrument 1 looks something like a medieval lute, but with a smart phone jammed into its belly.
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Plus it has a built in bass, violin and drum machine to boot. Is it a guitar? Is it a piano? Nope, it is a crazy iPhone-powered combination of both. Now, there is this very interesting instrument, an Artiphon. We have little 4 inch devices that are more powerful than computers that were made less than 8 years ago. So, basically, an Akai 4000s with USB, a built in rechargeable battery, and some sounds. EWI 5000 charges via USB or wall power and also includes a USB cable, wall adapter, wireless receiver, and a neck strap.
A 1/4- inch output to connect to an amplifier or PA and an 1/8-inch headphone output for silent practice are included. Both USB MIDI and 5-pin MIDI are onboard for controlling software synths or traditional MIDI modules. An EVI (Electronic Valve Instrument) Mode is included for brass players, and EWI 5000 also includes eight control knobs for tweaking Filter, Reverb, Chorus, LFO, Breath Amount, Bite Amount, Semitone Tuning, and Fine Tuning. EWI 5000 includes 12 touch-sensitive metal keys on its top and an eight-wheel thumb- controlled octave roller on the bottom. For the Winter 2014 NAMM show, Akai has announced a new EWI.ĮWI 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.