If my limited time allows, I will eventually post a sample composition created with the help of Synfire and the EWI-USB. The most obvious advantage however was that I could take my laptop and headphones everywhere and not disturb anyone. After two hours of playing, I felt more and more comfortable and the playing techniques burried deep in my memory started to return. Since I am a big fan of the trumpet, soprano sax and clarinet, I thought it would be great if I was able to record melodies with the EWI and have Synfire take care of everything and just preserve the human expression. I once played the flute in my childhood, but never touched a sax or clarinet.

Since it would have been a shame to not share it, I invested another day and polished it a bit so EWI players around the world can now use it too. I built this utility, because I could not find anything on the net that would do what I need. You can connect to your computer via USB to play soft synths and external MIDI sound modules through your DAW, with breath control providing a world of. If you have any affinity to wind instruments, you should risk a look. Earlier this year, I used an EWI-USB to try out different ideas using a wind controller for melody recording and phrase generation with Synfire (more on this later). Four different key switches can be assigned to individual hardware sensors and trigger specific sound articulations this way. This way a player can keep multiple settings for different setups. The tool is available for free.Īkai EWI-USB Control can be chained between the controller hardware and a sequencer or synthesizer software in order to filter the MIDI data stream in real-time.

looking forward to using songs2see a lot more in the next.

Cognitone has released Akai EWI-USB Control, a utility software for the wind controller hardware EWI-USB from Akai Professional. The tool provides controls for all the hardware's parameters and allows for saving frequently used presets to disk. Tried using the akai EWI usb with songs2see and it works really well.

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