• @howrar@lemmy.ca
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    88 months ago

    Akai EWI Solo

    My partner insisted on getting me one of these as a gift because I like playing music. It’s cool for sure, and I enjoyed the little bit I’ve played on it, but there’s just no time. So it’s left to gather dust now.

    • @JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
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      38 months ago

      I paid around US$700-800 for a nice Neumann mic that I’d researched pretty well, but like a dumbass didn’t realise that it required power, meaning I couldn’t just hook in to my amp like your basic Shure.

      So later on as a solution, I got myself a Focusrite powered amp-interface that has a bonus of being able to route guitar and mic input in to USB. Spent hours trying to get everything working and kept running in to problems. IIRC the USB signal was barely received by my computer, and the only way the amp received a signal is if the computer was powering the thing, which shouldn’t have been a requirement as it already had power.

      I just went back to my Shure while that fancy stuff gathers dust. Similar thing with my Ableton.

    • @Reddfugee42
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      28 months ago

      I mean I could Google but what is it, what drew you to it

      • folkrav
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        68 months ago

        Not OP, but EWI is Electronic Wind Instrument. It’s basically a fancy MIDI controller/synthesizer in a clarinet-like format.