Customize the S1 & S2 Buttons on an Aerophone AE-30
Huh. Didn’t know this. Coolio.
Site dedicated to EWI (Akai, Roland, Yamaha and others)
Huh. Didn’t know this. Coolio.
Had to play this on a gig. I don’t own a Whistle in F, so I did it on EWI using the whistle patch. Worked great.
There seems to be more Electronic Wind Instruments out there than I know. Here is a company called Greaten, which makes TWO versions of an EWI. The difference between them can be found here. Basically, these look like Akai EWI4000/5000 clones. Which is NOT a bad thing. Now this would be an excellent thing if……IF……it…
A company called MidiPlus is coming out with a wind controller called “Elesa”. No word on pricing, but it’s good to see more Wind Controllers out there.
Things break….and usually at the worst time. Case in point…..I had a gig literally 2 days before Christmas. I had a rehearsal for it 5 days before. No problem, packed up the saxophones, the flute, stands, and AE-30. Get to the rehearsal……no sound from the AE-30. Huh. Bad cable? No. It was turning on. Volume…
Having a 3D printer is a LOT of fun. Yes, you end up printing random shit, but at some point, you decide you want to fix a problem. My problem was getting some sort of stand adapter for an Aerophone AE-20 that would fit on my flute/clarinet peg. There was someone who made one for…
Ok, this is rather cool. Someone has some OpenSCAD and STL of an “aspirational” EWI project. This would be rather nice to see finished. Anyone?
If you play the Aerophone solo, ie not in conjunction with like playing saxophone or something, I think the Aerophone stand you should get is the Koldot Digital Wind Instrument Holder. However, if you are playing saxophone, or saxophones, it get’s a little cramped having lots of stands around. And those stands have their own…
Roland has released a new firmware for these two instruments. LOTS of amazing new features, and new sounds.
I’m not sure how I missed this, but this sounds freaking awesome. I HOPE he finds time to finish this.