tauzero Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 Christmas Day featured me giving an interesting gift to Mrs Zero - a Vangoa EWI-100, which is an electronic wind instrument which can also be used as a MIDI controller. Can be set to flute or sax fingering (Mrs Zero doesn't play either but has messed around with a recorder, a penny whistle, and an ocarina) and has ten internal sounds which are more or less recognisable facsimiles of the instruments that they're supposed to be emulating. It's a similar concept to the Akai EWI but £40 instead of £400 (and not as sophisticated and probably somewhat flimsier). We had a quick play with the MIDI side of things and it works fine. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted December 27, 2023 Share Posted December 27, 2023 Interesting! Got a link for a UK retailer? My other half/musical co-conspirator would be into this - and it's her birthday in March... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulThePlug Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 Nice... Got the Son a Melodica a while back... got a link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass_dinger Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 (edited) Here's a link to a review from Team Recorder - a YouTube channel so good that I watch it, even though I don't play the recorder. Edited January 1 by bass_dinger The link - include the link! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted January 2 Author Share Posted January 2 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315056807149 and others - just search for "electronic wind instrument", filter on location and sort on price. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 On 02/01/2024 at 12:46, tauzero said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315056807149 and others - just search for "electronic wind instrument", filter on location and sort on price. Cheers, sorry for the late response, only just seen your post. 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
police squad Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 can this trigger sounds from a keyboard then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 48 minutes ago, police squad said: can this trigger sounds from a keyboard then? AFAICS any MIDI capability is MIDI over USB, which will require a host device to work rather than traditional MIDI via 5-pin DIN sockets which is a peer-to-peer protocol. That means you can plug the EWI into your computer and use it to play a plug-in instrument via your DAW. If you want to use it to play sounds from keyboard or other device that has MIDI DIN sockets you'll need a MIDI host box to go between the two. There are cheap host boxes, but all the decent ones cost at least as much as the EWI. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
police squad Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 10 hours ago, BigRedX said: AFAICS any MIDI capability is MIDI over USB, which will require a host device to work rather than traditional MIDI via 5-pin DIN sockets which is a peer-to-peer protocol. That means you can plug the EWI into your computer and use it to play a plug-in instrument via your DAW. If you want to use it to play sounds from keyboard or other device that has MIDI DIN sockets you'll need a MIDI host box to go between the two. There are cheap host boxes, but all the decent ones cost at least as much as the EWI. a bit out of my depth here, perhaps my keyboard playing genius chap can help. it's a cool bit of kit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted January 13 Author Share Posted January 13 17 hours ago, police squad said: can this trigger sounds from a keyboard then? It can trigger sounds off USB synth modules (for instance, at the cheaper end, https://www.midiplus.com.tw/en/product-detail/miniEngineUSB/ [1]), and off standard MIDI modules/keyboards if you have a MIDI host to USB interface (I built one for about £20). [1] Taiwanese, so if you find it on AliExpress, the invasion has happened 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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