Intro To EWI
Most excellent video introducing the EWI.
Artists Who Held Boring Day Jobs
This should be watched by a lot of musicians. You really should have some sort of stable income but still follow your dream.
ECORDER
Yet another wind controller out there.
WARBL
Yet more great Wind Controller instruments coming out. This one is called WARBL. Very cool.
Jazz Deconstructed: John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”
Pretty good thing on Giant Steps by Vox
EWI Tool Shutting Down
One of the best, maybe even better than the one that ships with it, patch editor for the AKAI EWI4000S is EWITool. Sadly, there was a post by it’s author, Stephen Merrony, saying he’s closing it down. Hi Everyone, After ten years(!) it’s time for me to consign EWItool to history. The patch exchanged has…
Open Source MIDI Foot Controller
On the heels of the last post, An Open Controller For Woodwind Instruments comes this from hackaday.com: MIDI has been around for longer than most of the readers of Hackaday, and you can get off my lawn. In spite of this, MIDI is still commonly used in nearly every single aspect of musical performance, and…
An Open Controller For Woodwind Instruments
From Hackaday.com: Engineers, hackers, and makers can most certainly build a musical gadget of some kind. They’ll build synths, they’ll build aerophones, and they’ll take the idea of mercury delay line memory, two hydrophones, and a really long tube filled with water to build the most absurd delay in existence. One thing they can’t seem…
Michael Brecker Archive
Steve Neff has a great article about Michael Brecker’s addition to the Living Jazz Archive. Steve Neff’s Blog Post: Dr. David Demsey at William Paterson University contacted me a few years ago to tell me about the “Living Jazz Archives” that the University was building and how they were adding a Michael Brecker Archive to…
Roland Doubles Down On The Aerophone
I like the Roland company. They have a history of making great products. Roland Keyboards, Keyboard Amps, Sound modules, and of course the Roland V-Drums. However, their Aerophone is a rather questionable entry for the company. They are now doubling down on the Aerophone, introducing the Aerophone GO. I think this is their attempt to…