EWItool

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. From version 0.4 onwards there is access to an online patch repository for sharing patches with others. For details please see EWIPatchExchange .

EWItool has been developed by Steve Merrony for both Linux and Windows. Zip files of executables are available for Windows users. Other contributors have provided a Debian package (i386 lenny/sid) and a Gentoo ebuild which are available in the Download section. Debian package sources are also available in the "contrib/debian" SVN folder.

If you download EWItool, please provide us with feedback preferably by joining our Google Group.

Screenshots

See here!

Features

Integrated access to an online EWI Patch Exchange
More control over patches than the 'other' editors!
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 clipboard 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

Platforms

EWItool will run on 32- and 64-bit Linux, and 32-bit Windows.

See the project wiki for more details on installing and running EWItool.