Sylphyo, the new clarinet With the shape of its bell and its dark color, the Sylphyo of Aodyo evokes a clarinet, but by the display you can tell it is an electronic clarinet. The Sylphyo can be tuned to any tone on a ±2-octave range.

EWI (from electronic wind instrument, pronounced EE-wee) is a type of wind controller, an electronic musical instrument. The models, EWI4000s (discontinued June 2019), EWI5000, and EWI SOLO contain built-in digital synthesizers and don’t strictly require an external box.

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A wind controller (or midi wind controller) is an electronic instrument made for woodwind players, complete with a fingering system similar to a saxophone or clarinet, but that plays a wide variety of sounds like a digital keyboard. This opens up a whole new world of musical possibilities!

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The Sylphyo can be the perfect electronic counterpart to any kind of acoustic flute, be it a recorder, a transverse flute, or even an irish whistle, as fingerings for all these different acoustic instruments are included.

The USB MIDI Breath Controller uses a novel signal processing algorithm to convert the breath pressure signal to MIDI messages (CC, Pitch bend or Aftertouch) that let you add realistic expression to your performance. This is extremely useful for live performance with synthesizers and DAW’s.

The multi-scale electronic flute mimics the real flute playing. Unlike the traditional flute using the air flow generating sound, our multi-scale electronic flute uses the software program to generate the flute sound based on the sound frequency.

To do this, turn your EWI on and press and hold the “SETUP” button. Use the “INTERVAL” and “HOLD” side keys to scroll through till the display shows “PC”. When you release the “SETUP” button, your display should show “dp”. If there is a dot showing between the “d” and “p” then this setting is “on”.

Charging: Use the included USB cable to connect the EWI5000’s USB port to either (A) the included USB power adapter, connected to a power source or (B) an available USB port on your computer (powered on). You can charge the battery while using the EWI5000. While charging, a dot will flash in the EWI5000’s display.

Wind controllers are most commonly played and fingered like a woodwind instrument, usually the saxophone, with the next most common being brass fingering, particularly the trumpet. Models have been produced that play and finger like other acoustic instruments such as the recorder or the tin whistle.

Some musical works require the clarinetist to play several types of clarinet in the same piece. The 2 to 4 clarinets in the orchestra play both melodies and harmonies, and they have a dark rich sound in their lower notes, while the upper part of the clarinet’s range is bright and resonant.

Most electronic instruments are designed to be played with a piano-style keyboard. However, wind instruments offer capabilities for musical expressiveness that a keyboard cannot, especially for lead parts. At first it might seem peculiar to blow air into an electronic instrument, but once you try it, the benefits become apparent.

The signal produced by this electronic instrument then could control any type of MIDI sound module now opening up the entire world of sounds to the performer. Because of the similarity to a saxophone, the electronic wind instrument is most commonly used by saxophone players.