Rca999

I've been using an akai ewi 4000s with the px and it works great, I'm new to all of this but I used it in a local theater run of a musical. I assigned the wind controller to zone 2, created some string patches, tightens up some bassoon clarinet english horn and a couple of synths. I had literally had the px for a few days so I had no time to do any custom midi implementation nor do I know how to do so. I still had three other zones to play with on the keys. Don't know if anyone could help me with this but how would one go about implementing midi, it seems that for my ewi and the usable editable (according to what I can understand from the online manual) all I have to use breath wise is expression and volume. On my xwp1 the synth section has something called virtual controller that allows me to set breath to a wide range of stuff, is there anything like that on the px?

Hi Jaspeter, Sorry for the confusion, actually it's the other way around, on the px-5s if I tongue a string sound, like a wind player would attack a note, then the previous note I attacked is repeated with the one I'm playing. On almost all other sounds this does not happen. It's like if you where to play a note on the keyboard and when you play the next one it also plays with it the one before. On this particular EWI ( ewi4000s) the breath sensor can only select volume, velocity, expression, breath and after touch so I think I'll need a processor for it. Thanks for the insight Rob

I have had a couple of m-audio pedals give out on me before, so for me no surprise there. And at the time I was using a m-audio controller keyboard.

hi everyone, hope you can help and/or find this helpful Is there a way to set a parameter, say cut off, to be controlled by a CC message, say CC#2? I have found much to my delight that my akai ewi works pretty great with the px-5s (and the xw-p1 too) but would benefit from setting certain things to breath control. I was able to use the ewi with the px-5s for an entire run of a musical playing strings, bassoon, english horn, clarinet and synth on the ewi and a bunch of stuff on the px5s like eps, organs, harp, chord holds on strings and accordion. The Ewi only takes up on zone; I set the midi channel to two so zone two was the ewi. On that zone only the ewi could play, whether it's on or not and all the other zones work beautifully still. This keyboard just keeps getting better and better. One other question, when ever I played a string sound if I tonged notes, like a wind player would, on the ewi it would repeat the last note on the attack, on the xw-p1 it does not do this. Can this have to do with release polyphony? And I f so how does one change that? Thanks Rob

Choppin, Hi, Thanks for the info, I've noticed you help a lot in this forum so thank you for this and all the other help you have already provided me. I'll will give this a shot and post results in the near future.

Hi all, I recently got a px-5s (Holy crap what an amazing instrument, but I'll save my praising of for somewhere else. Now back to the question), and I want to hook up my xw and my ipad to them. I have connected the ipad alreadythru both the usd and midi ports and the audio in I'm sure its the same for the xw. My question is how do I make them a part of a stage setting? For example, I would like to put the sound of the audio in in zone 3 (or any for that matter). Also can I make the audio of the stereo ins and the 1/8 in two different zones? Right now it plays throug what ever zone I'm on as long as its on. And finally, would it be possible to call up a stage setting (that I set up) that will change the tone on the xw? Thanks