Great but be sure to get the updated sounds from Patchman 
by Stan Scott from NY, NY, June 2008
Music Background:  Pro Player

I love the EWI. I got it several months ago and played it for while but got tired of the horrible internal sounds. I updated my EWI with the Patchman Music EWI4000s soundbank and now IT ROCKS!
They also offer a package deal that includes their sounds and the horn calibrated by a pro.

  Akai Wind controller gets thumbs up. 
by Jim Lytle from San Jose CA, December 2007
Music Background:  Reno style duo for five years and Hartnell College Jazz band alumnis -Shout out to Dr. Carl Christensen

I am enjoying this EWI4000S by plugging it through my Alesis HD8. I am impressed that the Akai wind controller has no moving parts except for nine control buttons. This tool will last a long time. Some pretty smart people dreamed this thing up and made a digital horn that will take trills at lightening speed. I could not trill that fast on a keyboard. It really sounds like a horn. The models that are built in include a great soprano sax but nothing that sounds much like a tenor or alto sax. I assume horn players already have saxes so they want new synth and sample sounds anyway. I am a guitar and keyboard guys who wants a sax sound in my headphones while my neighbors and family hear nothing (I can practice longer) so I have to plug into a tone module for sax sounds. I do love this horn and believe its "no moving parts" idea will prove best as the years roll by -no moving parts = no maintenance I will predict. The Alesis HD8 has a wind modeling engine and it will prove useful with this horn. Yamaha Motif racks and synths offer a horn modeled soundchip option that I look forward to trying. In short, if you are a horn player you can use the Akai. If you are not a horn player, then you can become one and your chest and lungs will swell with pride! (ha ha). Because the breath sense if adjustable, you can make it easy or hard to breath into, and it takes a fair amount of wind to drive this thing, so it will get you into shape and that cannot be bad, right? I mean it. This thing will be my close jamming buddy for years.

EWI4000S 
by Gregory W.Dawson,Sr./Crosswinds Band from New Orleans La., February 2006

I had the old EWI1000 model its all gone now thanks to the hurricane,anyway i had the opportunity to play the ewi4000 i have to say that the 4000 is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! very easy to work with on stage as well the studio.


Thanks;
GWD

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