Anyone use these? Akai EWI models, Yamaha WXs, or others?
I own an Akai EWI 4000S and wouldn't sell it unless I was dying of starvation. Its keys play like a recorder, and its mouthpiece is closer to one, too (which is fine, the recorder is the only 'wood wind' I know how to play hehe), but it was the internal synth that drew me. It's VA, but Akai thought out enough to make it very playable with breath control and Patchman Music makes an excellent sound bank for it.
I love not being tied to a sound module or computer, and the attack phase of the envelope is as long as I have air
The sensor resolution to the internal synth is also higher than any MIDI module will ever be. Absolutely zero stepping/zipper.
If Akai released a physical modeling version at NAMM I'd buy it as soon as I could. Or Yamaha, they've got some excellent PM stuff. Cram a VL-1 or VL-7m into a WX-5? Oh yes.
I own an Akai EWI 4000S and wouldn't sell it unless I was dying of starvation. Its keys play like a recorder, and its mouthpiece is closer to one, too (which is fine, the recorder is the only 'wood wind' I know how to play hehe), but it was the internal synth that drew me. It's VA, but Akai thought out enough to make it very playable with breath control and Patchman Music makes an excellent sound bank for it.
I love not being tied to a sound module or computer, and the attack phase of the envelope is as long as I have air

The sensor resolution to the internal synth is also higher than any MIDI module will ever be. Absolutely zero stepping/zipper.
If Akai released a physical modeling version at NAMM I'd buy it as soon as I could. Or Yamaha, they've got some excellent PM stuff. Cram a VL-1 or VL-7m into a WX-5? Oh yes.
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