The Man Behind Disney’s Most Famous Parade Music
I found this interesting….
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THE FUTURE OF THE EWI
With the plethora of new “EWIs” out, which I would say fail to really capture what the instrument is, we now have this. Which looks like it is coming soon!
Nyle Steiner Plays NuRAD
The more I see this instrument, and the SAD offerings now by Akai, Roland, and now Yamaha………I think this is really what people are looking for.
EWI Tool Is BACK!
EWI Tool, and open source patch editor for the Akai EWI4000s was shutdown almost 2 years ago. And Akai has since discontinued making the EWI 4000s (stupid decision in my opinion). Seems like if you are a macOS user, you were kinda screwed as if you went to 10.15 (Catalina), you basically couldn’t edit your…
Potential New Windsynth From Yamaha?!?!
EWI Solo
How do you take the venerable Akai EWI, and make it total garbage? You strip away the wireless, make it longer, and give it a shitty speaker. For your pleasure, the “geniuses” at Akai have brought forth…..the EWI Solo.
Mainstage Effects for EWI
I like how he’s using Mainstage, and another controller taped(?) to his EWI. Wild stuff!
VINDOR ES2 WIND CONTROLLER
If you can forgive the Youtube videos they have up of a guy clearly in need of some serious Jonathan Van Ness intervention, a company called Vindor has a intriguing, reasonably priced wind controller that is actually shipping. I believe they had a version 1 of this but I never heard of it. Anyhow, it…
Using an EWI as a “Practice” For Woodwinds
Bret Pimentel has a great article about using an EWI as “silent” practice tool for saxophone, clarinet, or other woodwinds. I agree with his view point.
Berglund Instruments
Following up from the last post, another company to watch is Berglund Instruments. They currently make an EVI (Electric Valve Instrument) that looks and sounds great. If you follow their instagram account, it seems they are working on a EWI version. And I want one. Seriously. I’ve contacted them.