[LAU] Akai EWI

[Brett McCoy]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Bob van der Poel <bob at mellowood.ca> wrote:

> Just wondering if any of you are using an Akai Ewi4000s as a midi
> controller on a linux box. Success (or lack)?
>
> I'd like to give it a go, but I'm wondering what synth would be best,
> setup, etc. I've tried a synth on linux before (many years) with
> limited success ... surely things have improved! I've tried running a
> keyboard off the EWI but it's quite useless to do so ... I think the
> breath controller messages get in the way?

I've got an Akai EWI and it worked out of the box with Linux as a USB
MIDI device. I haven't done that much with it, but had no trouble
recording MIDI using Rosegarden.

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Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com
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