***TO EVERYONE WHO IS LOOKING FOR HIS SOUND***-----HE IS USING A PATCHMAN MUSIC EWI4000s SOUNDBANK. Google Patcman muisc ewi and you will find how to purchase. Bob Mintzer and other well known players use this sound bank. There are 100 different sounds. The delay that he uses (to play the canon/duet) is actually one of the sounds (#40 if i remember). If you want to order an ewi i HIGHLY recommend that you order from patchman music. the instrument comes calibrated with all the sounds sounding their best. hope this helps someone!
Every time i watch this im left in awe of this performance, from his opening intro of the instrument to that very last note. Im thankful to the person who was there to capture and then share this performance.
as far as depriving musicians of their job...music wouldn't be a "job" if everyone took the time to learn. We are too specialized as a society...everyone has the capacity to become a musician, but we have become too lazy...this instrument is amazing, and remember, great musicians are always going against the grain, everyone else is trying to copy them.
Akai should give this guy a commission. It helped to sell me. I had tried early versions back around 1988, but the self-contained synth in this sold me. Picked it up with the patchman music patches and love the sounds.
Great video. I'm considering an EWI myself, though I don't know how to play a wind instrument (yet). This guy's performance rocks; very creative use of looping himself.
By the way, if you want to see a GREAT player on the EWI, search on Masato Honda here on the tube. There are many videos of him playing the EWI. I'd say he's the best I've heard on this instrument.
I got my EWI about a year ago to help fill some voids in my band. I use it in conjunction with a Roland Sonic Cell (all with patchman patches on both the Sonic Cell and EWI 4000s) I've been playing sax for 30 years and the rollers took a little getting use to. I was told by others it would take about 3 months to get comfortable with it. They were right. After hearing Jeff, I had to get a loop station. It took a few hours to figure out but I'm coming close to reproducing his exact solo :-)
He could be using a looping pedal, but he would have to be doing mad foot work to get that first piece to sound correct. What I think he is doing for his first duet, (someone correct me if I'm wrong,) is using Patchman Music's "Looper" voice from their EWI4000s Soundbank Volume 1. That particular voice resembles this exact synth sound, and everything played is reverberated heavily, exactly one second later, as in the first piece played here; this creates a nice duet with ones own playing.
I play tenor and alto saxophones and want to add soprano for the register. I just today returned to this video after a year or so, remembering how expressive Jeff's whole presentation was. I am now an uncommitted but leaning buyer of the EWI. I am familiar with Patchman Music; Thank you, Pat Q, for the info on the sound Jeff Kashiwa gets. In the range he uses for the funky stuff, it's like a "fat" soprano sax, clear as glass, and in his hands every bit expressive as the "real time" instrument. Does anyone know what sound or patch he is using?
If you own an EWI, and you're currently learning how to really master technique (in particular) on it, you will understand how much of a badass Jeff is in this video
If it's anything like the recorder I played back in my elementary school days, the fingerings would be different. The EWI fingerings are basically saxophone fingerings, which will be familiar to anyone who's played sax, clarinet, flute, or penny whistle.
i think he's using the onboard tone generator... look at the little box at the end of the instrument. thats a thing usually used for wireless guitar hookups and it'd plug into the audio out jack on the ewi
@analogWeapon Jeff Kashiwa uses the patchman music EWI patches; the "delay" is simply one of their patches (#40). Then of course he uses a loop station for the latter part of the video
Yep, if you plan to start playing on stage and studio, the 4000s is worth every penny. It may be tough to get use to octave rollers and how precise the keys are, that's basically the only real learning curve if you play wind instruments as well. :-)
ewi usb is only a midi controller, no tone generator at all. so you need a midi box or a pc running midi sampler software it comes with (or any midi sampler)
@equesfuscus there are lot of places to learn wich i dont know :) band rehersal apartments, music schools, normal schools, im not sure, mainly in music schools, anyway you always haveto go somewhere else to train. saxophone what i was looking was 655 euros, tenor, very nice looking, golden. i actually might buy it, i never even played flute before :D but usually when im interested on something i train hard, im not that kind of, that got some "face" and then i forget it after 3 play times.
@JanneFlinck1981 I live in an apartment, too, and always finish practising by 9pm. I talked to my neighbours, told them what I was going to do, offered to let them let me know what time was best, but didn't offer not to do it. They appreciated being consulted, and no one complains. People have pianos and other instruments in apartments a lot. I recommend talking to your neighbours.
I'm guessing the first piece he played was an original composition, maybe? if not, anyone know the title? also, i still cant figure out how to get his looping effects to happen on the fly. im working on a patch that will do it, but until then, i'll just watch in awe.
@JanneFlinck1981 The only difference is the size and the range of the instrument. Well, they do have slightly different sounds but that is due to the range they play in.
Must to have a midi interface. Conect your ewi midi in + midi out to midi interface and interface to your pc. Instal VIZEX program from the ewi cd. Also you can buy Akai ewi 4000s soundbank from patchman music.
I think it's worth it. You can work on your tone and some scales, just to get the basics going. If you love it, then do it. It won't be easy or great at first, but if you work at it, then you'll be better able to really learn once you get a different place to practice. Surely, people in Finland like playing music, so where do people generally go to practise?
you can't i think. the internal synth is analog and has a set of sounds you can't change. to use different sounds people use an external synth connected by a midi cable
can this be played with earphones that only you can hear it, or put volume down, so it can be practised at evening in apartments, without disturbing neigbours? i would really want to play saxophone alto or tenor (dont know diference), but i would like to learn something before going practise realone with other people.
@xenadon $700 or so. Having one myself, I'd recommend getting one from Patchman Music, along with the soundbank from the same place. The factory sounds aren't great.
@equesfuscus its impossible to play saxophone or piano in Finnish apartments, no mater what time it is, i cant even play guitar hero drums with silenced sticks after 22,00, i did and got warning. and we even have very thick concrete walls.
