- #AKAI EWI USB ELECTRONIC WIND WITH ABLETON MANUAL#
- #AKAI EWI USB ELECTRONIC WIND WITH ABLETON SOFTWARE#
- #AKAI EWI USB ELECTRONIC WIND WITH ABLETON PC#
if you're willing to spend some time with it you can usually make it work though (i haven't had the time, so.) especially the built-in kontakt orchestral stuff is bad for this, because of the layering - you can send expression to control the volume with the breath controller, but whichever layer you are in when the note-on occurs is where you will stay, meaning crescendos sound weird no matter how you do it (haven't had time to try tweaking these too much). so synth patches have to be programmed to account for this, and they usually aren't. a wind synth, you might choose a note-on that is silent, and not expect sound (eg note on) to come until you blow into it (from a CC). The ewi usb can play any synth, but wind synths are fundamentally different from keyboards, in that on a keyboard, you press a key and you expect a note to start sounding, and you use CCs to affect the sound while it's playing.
#AKAI EWI USB ELECTRONIC WIND WITH ABLETON PC#
If you've already got the PC (and you do, or why would you be posting here?) you could save a little bit of money and get the ewi usb ($250 if you look around) and wivi band ($129). Using an EWI with Ableton would mean I could slip on my headphones and not get evicted for noise disturbances.Īs well as open up lots of avenues for musical expression that a keyboard just can't facilitate. Has been years since I played a woodwind instrument, and living in a small apartment would drive my neighbors crazy if I practiced with one for several hours a day.
I'm subscribing to this thread, and looking forward to hearing what Akai tells you about using a DAW (Ableton) as the main sound engine. Would definitely wait for a response from Akai, but if the less robust EWI USB can do it, I don't see why the 4000s wouldn't do the same. I would have to presume that the EWI 4000s would also do the same when connected via MIDI cable, either through the MIDI In port on a MIDI keyboard attached to a computer running a DAW, or directly to the audio interface's MIDI In port. I just found this info on the Akai website (not sure if you've seen it), and it says the Ewi USB will work as a controller for most DAW's (including Ableton), but to get all the expressiveness from it, you just need to know which CC#'s it needs for things like volume control, pitchbend, octave control, and ambrature (and whatever else it can do natively).
If it is compatible and we both get one it would be good if we could keep in touch. I bought an Oxygen 61 and was a bit annoyed to find that it doesn't have a midi port so I cannot use it with zero latency on my interface, so I don't want to repeat the mistake of not finding these things out before buying. I need to make sure before I fork out the dosh as I want to use it to record into Ableton. I emailed Akai support about this yesterday, but probably won't get a reply until next week.
#AKAI EWI USB ELECTRONIC WIND WITH ABLETON MANUAL#
I have skimmed the online manual and did not see anything about using it with a DAW. The only use for the midi connection they mention (I think it is physical midi lead) is for controlling physical sound modules.
#AKAI EWI USB ELECTRONIC WIND WITH ABLETON SOFTWARE#
I noticed that on the Akai website about it using any software synth, but it's a bit confusing because you can get stand-alone software synths and it doesn't say you can use it in a DAW. Without it, it sounded very much like MIDI samples played on a keyboard.īut I'll be very interested to hear from those who are, or have used the EWI with Ableton, because it's one of those devices that makes me want to lighten my bank account. The main one I was testing it on was a cello, and it seriously sounded almost real with breath control added in. It's a project I put on hold, as my mic was a crappy $10 P.O.J., but I now have a very decent AKG, so I need to finish the experimenting, because it is really impressive sounding when combining breath/tongue to the instruments. I've been experimenting with using a microphone to add much more realistic expressiveness to orchestral instruments in Ableton Suite using breath (controls volume & vibrato) and tongue (to add staccato & non legato), and it makes it sound so much closer to a real instrument than just using the keyboards.
So, I would have to say it will work just fine (think of the bite & breath control as similar to the pitchbend wheel & modulation wheel on a keyboard: they are merely modifiers for the MIDI input from the device). Would just need to use the MIDI port on the 4000s since it has no USB)) (( *EDIT: was thinking of the EWI USB when I wrote that. I've been interested in this device as well (former clarinet & bass clarinet player).Īccording the to video on the Akai website, it will work with any software synth that uses usb-to-MIDI (just like my MPK61 is attached via the USB rather than MIDI).
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