I am using EWI USB on Ubuntu Linux laptop: 6 year-old HP 2Ghz 1MB, it works fine with Reaper under Wine with VSTs for Akai Aria USB Player,  Aria COMB2 with full player, Korg M1 DLE and SFZ+ player.  Also, Band in a Box under Wine - in this config with BIAB playing the SFZ+ VST in Reaper as well as live EWI the computer barely copes, due to insufficient memory and CPU - a modern laptop should sail through, it just needs twice the memory and processor power.<br>
<br>Tony<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 October 2011 22:42, Bob van der Poel <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bob@mellowood.ca">bob@mellowood.ca</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Just wondering if any of you are using an Akai Ewi4000s as a midi<br>
controller on a linux box. Success (or lack)?<br>
<br>
I&#39;d like to give it a go, but I&#39;m wondering what synth would be best,<br>
setup, etc. I&#39;ve tried a synth on linux before (many years) with<br>
limited success ... surely things have improved! I&#39;ve tried running a<br>
keyboard off the EWI but it&#39;s quite useless to do so ... I think the<br>
breath controller messages get in the way?<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
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