Toronto-based musician specializing in woodwinds and electrowinds
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the start wasnt really feeling it but that towards the end?? AMAZING
Love the music, the respect to the instrument own nature and the way that is connected to the piano.. Everything is pretty solid and interesting. These instruments have to become more usual for our musical pleasure, but they have to be well played, like this, not only like strange toys from nerdy spheres. Bravo
Hi Stef ! Thanks a lot for your investigations, they are very useful, especially in these times of turbulences on the EWI market. By the way, it seems there's a brand new AP300 "PRO" coming. Do you plan to make a review on it soon ? Thanks again !
This would require the company to provide you with a specimen. By the way, living in Belgium (Brussels / Europe) i just tried to buy one (following your appreciation of the AP300 NON-pro) BUT i got a refusal of delivery to this destination. Hope they will enlarge their distribution soon...
Cheers from Taiwan but originally Calgary. Just bought one of these and am learning the Valve fingerings. Funny to see the best videos about wind synths coming from a familiar name. Hope you’re doing well
Hi Stef, just like @steveg601 your video inspired me to get one of these and I don't regret it - great value at the price! I got it fedexed to Sweden with no extra charge and received it within 10 days. I am a 55 yo sax player who needed some extra inspiration and an instrument to play at 1 am... so it's a little bit of a struggle, not so much getting accustomed to the exact fingerings etc required, but the setting it up with a PC, soft synth etc... because you grow sick of the few half-decent pre-set sounds in no time. So if you want to make a video for dummies showing how to set this up as midi controler with a couple of your recommended soft synths, I believe that will be useful for alot of people, definitely me! thx...
Hello. I wanted to ask because I would like to give myself a gift and buy Ewi solo. I just don't know, because there is also an ewi 5000 version and I'm wondering which one to choose. Is the solo better, has more functions and fingerings than the ewi 5000. What is the difference between both models? Regards.
Awesome review!!! I like the tenor sax sound!!! Thank you
turn down your gain and sit closer to your mic and use a noise gate
I bought an EWI USB years ago, but got frustrated and stopped using it after a while because i wasn't satisfied with the factory software and I couldn't find any documentation that could easily walk me through setting it up by myself to work with other synth VSTs. Then I found your videos, and now I am finally having fun with it! thanks so much, I am loving your channel
What is the best numbers for bite sensor and breath sensor
Stef, could you me a favor and check the following on your AP300. Do the pinkie keys increase or lower the tone by +/- 1/2 step no matter what other keys are pressed? (This is the Akai EWI standard fingering pattern.) For example, if you play (in ST fingering) a G4 (left index finger + left middle finger + left ring finger) and you press in addition the top left pinkie key, do you get a #G4? If you press the bottom left pinkie key, do you get a #F4? In addition, does the same work for top/middle right pinkie keys instead? And further, there also appears to be a key above the right index finger raising by 1/2 step (their manual shows that one as the "official" key for #G4)? Basically, I am trying to determine whether the pinkie keys work as they do at the Akai EWI by being additive to any other key pressed (in the EWI, each key has a value, either -1, -1/2, +1/2, +1, and the values of all keys pressed get added up to give the final tone-albeit there are a handful of exceptions to get standard fingerings). In this question, however, I am just worried about the pinkie keys. Just to clarify another way, do the pinkie keys have the following impact on the tone: Right bottom pinkie -1, Right middle pinkie -1/2, Right top pinkie +1/2, Right above index finger +1/2, Left bottom pinkie -1/2, Left top pinkie +1/2? Can they be added in arbitrary combinations to any other keys and have this impact? Or are only the combinations supported that are shown in the manual for a given fingering?
les sons de sax alto soprano tenor et baryton sont moyen, mais sur le yds 120 sont excellent
The "add breath control" steps aren't working for me. Where are you clicking when you say "click on that" around 4:08?
the frequency dial in EQ8!
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What is the price of this instrument and it is available in India
What is the price of this instrument and it is available in India
What is the price of this instrument and it is available in India
What is the price of this instrument and it is available in India
Thank you. The difference between the less expensive (e.g.) SM 57 and 58 and the more expensive microphones are not close to worth the extra cost., especially playing live. In the studio with the best, of the best, of everything besides a microphone maybe some could hear the difference. I do have to say, my Royer Ribbon microphone sounds good on flute alone in my mediocre studio.
Aerophone AE-20 player here I think the Roland patches sound much more accurate for the natural instruments. Can't really compare the synth patches as they are pretty different between Akai and Roland. I think there is a place for both in performance art though.
What is the price of this instruments
awesome review, any word on a firmware update for key delay?
What is the price of the instrument
does it have the option for trumpet fingering?
i am a keyboard player that also plays a little clarinet, this is very intriging, the price point is very very appealing, its an EWI clone with some minor modern updates for less than half the money, of a Akai 5000, or the aerophone mini. i would just to (eventually) wireless midi it to swam and do some sax parts, where did you buy it?
Hi, if i dont have command on my keyboard, what should i do
use "control" instead!
I want a mid sax that looks like a sax and that has standard saxophone fingering out the box
I've been searching around for answers and at the end of my rope. Thought maybe I'd try asking you. Using Fruity Loops to do the MIDI and Vocoder. The input and getting the vocoder to work aren't the issue. It's delay. I can lower the the buffering, but I start getting pops on every note. Maybe my CPU or general set up isn't up to snuff? Using an EWI 4000s with a midi to usb on a Windows machine. Then just Fruity Loops from there. ASIO drivers or just regular primary sound drivers. Same issues. Maybe a better audio card would help? I'm at my wits end! If you have any ideas let me know since I see you have it working very nicely.
@StefHaynes Have you managed to get in contact with the manufacturer? They have AP300 Pro, and the only feature they have there is updates of the Firmware. But, there is no Firmware anywhere. And they didn't reply on messages.
Hi Stef! Thank you for your tips! You say that you are a saxophonist (I am a clarinetist), what do you think is the most suitable fingering for us?
How to clean the inside of the midi flute?The entrance is very small.
cumbersome terrible design
Developers paid more attention to the sound. UI was just for bare functionality for those who know what they are doing, but definitely for an average person. DynaSample is a small company, they don't have enough resources to create a polished UI.
Just curious.... Is the sound coming from the computer? The tablet? That is some pretty good sound for coming from either of those devices. Is there a sound system off camera? I am getting one of these and I'd like to know how you are getting that good sound. Thanks!
you're obviously an expert like this where you demonstrate by going real fast up and down the scale doesn't help us leave beginners to make a choice of what it would sound like playing songs
What is the price of this wind synth?
Can I play with baroque recorder fingering?
Can you please do a video from the beginning with all the setups that you have for your Ewi 5000 please
Hi Stef, thank you for this very useful video. With regard to latency, could I ask how this instrument performs with external MIDI sounds? Many thanks indeed.
Too big because it integrates everything in a single instrument. If AKAI didn't have technologies to minimize the sound module part, they could've separated it from EWI part. I feel like AKAI EWI has not evolved much since the 80s.
Nice review... and you slid on that MIDI controller demo! 🔥
I love watching your videos and hearing you play
Thank you!
Nice...have you tried it with the SWAM instruments? And have you tried connecting it to an ipad via usb...i cant get it to recognise. Plus if i do Bluetooth midi its playing the audio through the speakers
Does the ap 300 has tilt midi control?
For those who want to play the LFO with a bite sensor: CC26 (LFO intensity) needs to be used. The main hurdle is the implementation that Korg developed due to the joy stick concept. You can only use the „Y+“ range of joy stick. This means that the min value needs to be 64. the max value can be 127 as usual. This can be setup quite easily for the EWI 5000 once you know what to do. It’s quite sad Korg didn’t mention the bit range in the manual…
Thanks for the tip!
@tomsackett. I have the same question. What is the "semit key"? I imagine that stands for semi tone, but no mater what I set it to, it doesn't seem to make any difference for anything played. I had some questions answered by buying a book but if post the books name the KZread censor algorithms delete my post. I think I will move to an EWI forum that is not so censor crazy.
Hey Stef, thanks for adding more details in the comments below, especially the info on connecting to Garage Band and EVI-NER. I'm hoping you might know the answers to few more questions. What is the "semit key"? The "semit key" setting is in the settings menu, and mentioned in the manual, but I don't know what it controls. How do I use the thumb switch to turn on the "growl" sound? The thumb switch works to bend the notes up or down, but when I move it right or left, it does nothing. Can I turn the glide bar off?
Thank you!
Thanks Stef for a great review. I liked your review so much that I order a Greaten SP300 from the manufacturer. They shipped directly from China with free shipping, and I received it here in Connecticut, USA in 10 days for $290. Wow that was fast. I have had it for two days and love playing it, but with factory setting, it does not sound optimal. However, it is much better than I expected, and I am quite happy with it. Akai has suggestions for calibrating their instrument on their website, with specific settings as suggestions. And Bernie Kenerson has a video on KZread how to adjust the Akai calibration. It seems my comment would automatically be removed if I included links to the above two calibrations, so I removed these links to try again...Success, it did not links among the text - without links it posted fine. The design on the AP300 seems more intuitive than the AKAI for calibration but as a beginner I do not understand how to best set these controls and the manual offers no explanation of what these controls mean: Reverb, Chorus, Delay Key, Pitch Bend, Tune, Semit Key, Breath Sense, Breath Sense CC1, Breath Sense CC2, Vib. Type, Amp Sense, Vib.CC, Up Pitch, Dn pitch, Adjust. With 127 settings for each control, I am at a loss of where to start if I want to improve the sound. Would you consider making a video showing how to calibrate the Greaten AP300 with some suggested settings as a good starting point and what each of these setting mean? Thanks again for your great videos. You are a remarkable musician.
This is amazing!