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EWI (n.) - An acronym for Electric Wind Instrument
tool (n.) - A device that enables the accomplishment of a task not otherwise possible.
EWItool is an open source controller for the popular Akai EWI4000s wind synthesizer. EWItool includes a fully graphical sound (patch) editor and patch library management. Since version 0.4 there has been access to an online patch exchange for sharing patches with others. For details please see EWIPatchExchange .
EWItool has been developed by Steve Merrony. It has been totally redeveloped in Java based on lessons learnt from the original C++/Qt version and now runs on Windows, OS X and GNU/Linux.
If you download EWItool, please provide us with feedback preferably by joining our Google Group.
- Integrated access to an online EWI Patch Exchange
- More control over patches than the 'other' editors!
- Runs on Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux
- Load all patches from EWI
- Real-time graphical patch editing
- Patch processing (randomise, make dry, remove noise, merge two patches, etc.)
- Patch renaming etc.
- Patch Set printing
- Persistent scratchpad for saving work-in-progress
- Creation of new patch libraries
- Import ".bnk" and ".sqs" files
- Export and import single-patch .syx files
- Natively works with ".syx" files
The new version of EWItool is written in Java (v.8) using no proprietary extensions or third-party libraries. It should run on all desktop platforms that support at least version 8 of Java including most versions of Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux.