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The Akai EWI 4000s comes with 100 presets which,quite frankly,don’t do justice to its internal synt. There are just a handful of patches that are really playable,and none of them vaguely resemble an acoustic instrument,including those that are relatively easy to reproduce with a synt (e.g. clarinet or recorder). Short of using an external expanders or computer,for us EWiers the choice has always been between these two options: 1) purchase the fantastic Patchman Music EWI4000s collection of sounds by EWI guru Matt Traum 2) create your own sounds with the Vyzex UniQuest Editor that you can download from AKAI website,available for PC and Mac. (Incidentally,if you don’t have the Patchman collection you are leveraging only a small fraction of the EWI 4000s potential,thus you should order a copy as soon as possible from Matt. At 90$ it’s a bargain.) However,if you are looking for “that specific sound”and even the Patchman collection doesn’t have anything like it,your only option is to built the patch yourself with the Vyzex editor,which isn’t exactly fun. Or at least,I always found it a bit counterintuitive and unnecessary difficult to use. Only recently I discovered a third option,in the form of an alternative,open-source EWI 4000s patch editor named EWITool,which you can download from here. Its author Steve Merrony did a great job,and the fact the the documentation is very concise is just another evidence of how simple the software is. Obviously,to use it at its best you still need to understand how the EWI oscillators and filters work,but in general everyhting seems simpler than with the other editor. By the way,there are two versions,for PC and Debian (but I tested only the former). EWITools has several neat features,including the ability to load and save all the 100 patches in the EWI,a clipboard where you can store as many patches as you wish (and the clipboard is preserved between sessions!),the creation of multiple libraries,and the ability to work with SYX and BNK files,including single-patch SYX files. Plus a few unique features,such as - the ability to create random patches,either from scratch or by randomizing some parameters of an existing patch - the ability to “merge”two patches,to create a sound that combines the characteristics of two patches - easy acccess to the EWI Patch Exchange. EWI Patch Exchange was an attempt to create a “marketplace”for EWI players wishing to exchange (for free!) their favorite patches. Unfortunately this attempt should be considered as a failure,because after 3 years there are only about 20 patches in the marketplace,and there haven’t been any new items in the last year. But it’s there and it might resurrected when needed. If nothing else you can find a few new sounds for your EWI. It seems that –like the EWI Patch Exchange –EWITool is a “dead”project that hasn’t been updated since 2008,which is a real pity because it was a very interesting project. At any rate,the source code is available and maybe not all is lost,because some other developer might pick it from there. Regardless,even in its “current”version 0.6,EWITool is an editor that all EWI players should have at hand.
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An EWI Akai 4000s thagann le 100 réamhshocruithe a, go leor frankly, nach ceartais a dhéanamh chun a SYNT inmheánach. Nach bhfuil ach dornán de na paistí atá i ndáiríre playable, agus aon cheann acu cosúil vaguely ionstraim fuaimiúla, lena n-áirítear iad siúd atá sách éasca a atáirgeadh le SYNT (m.sh. guth, cláirnéid nó taifeadta). Gearr an úsáid a bhaint as expanders seachtrach nó ríomhaire, do EWiers dúinn go bhfuil an rogha i gcónaí idir an dá rogha: 1) a cheannach ar an iontach Patchman Ceol EWI4000s bhailiú fuaimeanna ag EWI Gúrú Matt Traum 2) a chruthú do fuaimeanna féin leis an UniQuest Vyzex Eagarthóir gur féidir leat a íoslódáil ó shuíomh gréasáin Akai , ar fáil do ríomhaire agus Mac. (Teagmhasach, más rud é nach bhfuil tú ag bailiú Patchman bhfuil tú ag giaráil ach codán beag de na 4000s EWI féideartha, dá bhrí sin ba chóir duit cóip a ordú chomh luath agus is féidir ó Matt. Ag 90 $ tá sé ina mhargadh.) Mar sin féin, má tá tú ag lorg "go bhfuil fuaim ar leith" agus fiú an bailiúchán Patchman nach bhfuil aon rud maith liom é, tá do rogha ach amháin chun a tógadh an paiste féin leis an eagarthóir Vyzex, nach bhfuil go díreach spraoi. Nó ar a laghad, fuair mé i gcónaí sé beagán counterintuitive agus nach bhfuil gá deacair a úsáid. Ach le déanaí fuair mé amach an tríú rogha, i bhfoirm mhalairt, foinse oscailte eagarthóir EWI 4000s paiste ainmnithe EWITool , ar féidir leat a íoslódáil ó anseo . A údar Steve Merrony raibh post iontach, agus ar an bhfíric an an doiciméadú é atá an-achomair ach fianaise eile ar conas simplí go bhfuil an bogearraí. Gan amhras, a úsáid ag a is fearr ní mór duit fós a thuiscint conas is cosúil leis an oscillators agus scagairí EWI obair, ach i everyhting go ginearálta níos simplí ná leis an eagarthóir eile. Dála an scéil, tá dhá leagan, do ríomhaire agus Debian (ach tástáil mé ach an iar). EWITools Tá gnéithe neat agus arís eile, lena n-áirítear an cumas a luchtú agus a shábháil ar fad na 100 paistí sa EWI, a gearrthaisce áit ar féidir leat a stóráil go leor paistí agus is mian leat (agus tá an gearrthaisce chaomhnú idir seisiúin!), A chruthú leabharlanna il, agus an cumas a bheith ag obair le SYX agus comhaid BNK, lena n-áirítear comhaid SYX singil-paiste. Chomh maith le gnéithe cúpla uathúil, mar shampla - an cumas a chruthú paistí randamach, bíodh sé ó scratch nó trí randomizing roinnt paraiméadair de paiste atá ann cheana féin - an cumas chun "chumasadh" dhá paistí, a chruthú fuaime a chomhcheanglaíonn na tréithe de dhá paistí - acccess éasca ar an Paiste Exchange EWI. EWI Patch Malartú bhí iarracht a chruthú "margadh" chun imreoirí EWI ar mian leo a mhalartú (saor in aisce!) n paistí is fearr leat. Ar an drochuair ba chóir é seo iarracht a mheas mar teip, mar tar éis 3 bliana níl ach thart ar 20 paistí sa mhargadh, agus nach bhfuil raibh aon míreanna nua sa bhliain seo caite. Ach tá sé ann agus d'fhéadfadh sé resurrected nuair is gá. Más rud ar bith eile is féidir leat teacht ar fuaimeanna cúpla nua do do EWI. Dealraíonn sé go bhfuil -mhaith an EWI Patch Malartú -EWITool is "marbh" tionscadal nach bhfuil tugtha cothrom le dáta ó 2008, a bhfuil an trua toisc go raibh sé ina tionscadal an-spéisiúil. Ag aon ráta, is é an cód foinse atá ar fáil agus b'fhéidir nach bhfuil gach caillte, mar a d'fhéadfadh forbróir éigin eile phiocadh ó ann. Ainneoin, fiú amháin ina "reatha" leagan 0.6, is ina eagarthóir gur chóir go mbeadh gach imreoirí EWI ar láimh EWITool.