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Wind Controller Links & News
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 WIND
CONTROLLER FAQ
FINALLY! An updated Wind Controller FAQ (Frequently
Asked Questions) page is now
available here.
Visit the Wind Controller FAQ for everything
you ever needed to know about wind controllers!
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 Akai Releases New EWI4000s Wind
Controller
 Akai
recently released the new EWI4000s wind controller. The Akai
EWI4000s features battery power, and a built-in analog modeled
synth with effects right inside the body of the instrument, and
an additional EVI fingering mode! Patchman Music recently opened
the AKAI Store and stocks the EWI4000s. Patchman also offers
an impressive new soundbank that turbocharges the EWI4000s!
Click
here for complete info on the Akai EWI4000s.
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The Official Wind Controller
Forum Now Online!
 Patchman Music is proud to be hosting
The Wind Controller Forum. This web-based forum is dedicated
to the wind controller and breath controller. Come join the world's
top wind controller enthusiasts at the official Wind Controller
Forum.
Click here
to join The Wind Controller Forum.
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 Patchman
Music Now an Authorized Akai Dealer
Patchman Music is now an authorized Akai dealer specializing
and stocking Akai wind controller gear. Recently opened is the
AKAI Store where you can buy various Akai items. Click
here to visit the Patchman Music AKAI Store.
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 Patchman Music Now an Authorized
Roland Dealer
Patchman Music is now an authorized Roland dealer
specializing and stocking Roland and Boss gear that is most useful
to the Wind Controller player. We stock sound modules, amps,
footpedals and more. Click
here to visit the Patchman Music Roland Store.
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 Patchman Music Now an
Authorized MidiJet Pro Dealer
Patchman Music is now an authorized US dealer for
the MidiJet Pro Wireless MIDI System. If you have a battery
capable MIDI wind controller such as the WX5, MIDI EVI, WX7/BT7,
WX11/BT7, Casio DH-100, or DH-200 you can now enjoy wireless
performance.
Click
here for complete details on this wonderful new product.
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 Patchman Music Wind Controller
Repair Service
Patchman Music repairs most wind controllers, related
synths, and accessories. Why trust your wind controller to a
keyboard tech or hobbyist who has never even seen one?!
Previous clients include wind controller pros such
as Bob
Mintzer (Yellowjackets), and Bobby
Reed (Bruce Hornsby). We play and fully understand wind
controllers. We do the job right.
Click
here for details
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Patchman TURBO VL Upgrade Ships!
The amazing PATCHMAN TURBO VL upgrade chip for the
Yamaha VL70-m is now shipping. Read all about it, listen to over
200 mp3 audio demos, view a video, read what legendary Tom
Scott has to say about it. Click
here for details
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 Tribute
to EVI Great Judd Miller
Visit Patchman Music tribute page to the great EVI pioneer
and session musician Judd Miller. Judd is one of the earliest
and arguably the most prominent of all EVI players. Read a rare
interview with Judd Miller as he talks about his studio work
and EVI gear.
Click
here for details
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 Tribute
to EVI Pioneer Mark Hatch
Visit our Tribute to EVI Pioneer Mark Hatch webpage.
Mark is one of the earliest EVI players having gone to college
with Nyle Steiner. Over the years he would hang out in Nyle's
workshop and Nyle and he would try various things- often coming
up with things that we now take for granted. This was truly a
creative and inventive time in wind controller history.
You can read about Mark, see some of his rigs from
past years, and even hear him play at this webpage...
Click
here for details
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 Patchman
Music An Authorized Kenton Dealer
Patchman Music is an authorized US dealer for the
Kenton MidiStream Wireless MIDI System. If you have a
battery capable MIDI wind controller such as the MIDI EVI, WX5,
WX7/BT7, WX11/BT7, Casio DH-100, or DH-200 you can now enjoy
wireless performance.
Click
here for complete details on this product.
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 Matt Traum Website Online
Patchman Music's Matt Traum has a new website with
info about the man behind Patchman Music as well as some audio
clips of his EVI work and info on his wind controller gig rigs.
Click
here for details
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 Matt
Traum Gig Rig Webpage
Looking for the ultimate Wind Controller Rig? Matt
from Patchman Music has posted info and pictures of several revisions
of his Gig Rigs. Check these out to learn from a wind controller
expert how you can put together a great wind controller rig for
yourself!!
Click
here for details
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Patchman Music Now an Authorized Yamaha Dealer
 Patchman Music is now an
authorized Yamaha dealer specializing in Yamaha Wind Controller
Gear such as the WX5, VL70-m, MFC10, the WX5 Hard Case, and all
wind controller related accessories.
Click here
to visit the Patchman Music Yamaha Store
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 Patchman Music Wind Controller
Soundbanks
Patchman Music SPECIALIZES in Wind Controllers and
is THE source for wind controller and breath controller soundbanks
for the world's leading synths and samplers.
Click
here for a current list of PATCHMAN MUSIC professional wind
controller soundbanks for various synthesizers and samplers.
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 Steve Anderson's EVI Zone
Check out EVI virtuoso and pioneer Steve Anderson's
THE EVI ZONE. There are lots of great audio clips at the site
as well as info and photos of his excellent brass-style wind
controller gig rig.
Click here for
details
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 MDT Brass Style
Wind Controller Released
Trumpet Players Rejoice!! There is now another brass-style
wind controller called the MDT.
Click
here for details on this exciting instrument.
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 Embouchure
Sensor Mod for the MIDI EVI
MIDI EVI OWNERS! Check out this exciting new MIDI
EVI Embouchure Sensor mod developed by Matt Traum at Patchman
Music.
Click
here for details
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 Bernie
Kenerson Website
Be sure to check out our good friend Bernie Kenerson's
website which features a LOT of EWI based clips. Bernie is a
long time wind controller player having started on the original
Lyricon back in 1978! Bernie recently released a wonderful CD
which features his Akai EWI4000s and Patchman Music's EWI4000s
Volume 1 soundbank.
Read about Bernie and his long history of wind controller
work at his site here...
Bernie Kenerson
Website
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 Bob
Hunt's Synthophone Site
Check out our good friend Bob Hunt's Synthophone website.
It features lots of audio and video clips of Bob playing the
Synthophone wind controller as well as info on his gig rig and
his custom Wireless Synthophone Project.
Check it out at http://electricmotorsales.net/bobhunt/
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Bob Norton's "WX5 Tips and Tricks"
WX5 OWNERS! Be sure to check out Bob Norton's site
with some excellent tips on setting up the WX5. This is a great
resource for beginners just starting out on the WX5 wind controller
who need help adjusting it to their playing style.
Click
here for details
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 Casio
DH-100/200 Sales and Repairs
Patchman Music now repairs and sells used Casio DH-100
and DH-200 Digital MIDI Horns (as well as most other wind controllers).
Click
here for details
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 Jorrit Dijkstra's
Lyricon Page
Jorrit Dijkstra's interesting site on the Lyricon
complete with a picture of inventor Bill Bernardi.
Click
here for details
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 Tribute
to WX7 Pioneer Sal Gallina
Patchman Music has published a webpage dedicated to
the late great WX7 design consultant to Yamaha Sal Gallina complete
with MP3 audio tracks of Sal playing the WX7.
Click
here for details
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 Yahoo
Wind Controller Group
The definitive Wind Controller Group on the Internet!
The Yahoo Wind Controller Group is THE PLACE to discuss
wind controllers. Come join over 2000 wind controller users and
fans as we discuss everything about wind controllers! For more
information or to join this group click
here.
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 The
MIDI EVI Webpage
Trumpet and brass players, be sure to check out the
amazing MIDI EVI brass style MIDI wind controller. This instrument
is hand made by inventor Nyle Steiner.
Click
here for details
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 The
Official Nyle Steiner Homepage
The Official Nyle Steiner Homepage is brought
to you by PATCHMAN MUSIC in cooperation with Nyle Steiner
to keep you informed of the latest news from the inventor of
the EVI and EWI wind controllers.
This is the place to go for the latest Nyle News.
You will also find the latest information on Nyle Steiner's new
MIDI EVI controller, EWI to EVI
conversions, audio clips of Nyle's amazing virtuosity, as well
as personal notes from Nyle Steiner himself.
Click
here for details
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 The Ian Fritz's Stealth
Webpage
Ian Fritz's very cool wind controller site featuring
his home-brew "Stealth" wind controller, "Son
of Stealth" wind controller, analog synth, and physical
modeling clarinet! Great page!
Click
here for details
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Louis Gerrits' Michael Brecker Website
Louis Gerrits has a wonderful website dedicated to legendary
EWI / saxman Michael Brecker. It has lots of transcriptions,
videos, and audio clips.
Click
here to visit the website.
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 The Softwind Synthophone Homepage
If you are interested in the ultimate Sax style MIDI
controller, you owe it to yourself to visit the Softwind
Synthophone. Martin Hurni, the creator of the Synthophone,
is a genius and a great guy.
Erik Klein has also created a great Synthophone page
with information
and photos of the Synthophone.
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Mick Emery's Synthophone Site
Check out our friend Mick Emery's site that features
his fine work on the Softwind Synthophone wind controller. The
site contains a lot of nice compositions and excellent wind controller
playing. Check it out at http://www.mickemery.com/
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 Rolando Gingras' EVI Haven
The Rolando Gingras EVI Haven website includes sample audio
files excerpted from his many recordings featuring the EVI. Check
him out!
Click here
for details
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Ron Cole's EVI Dissertation
 Click
here (Mac-Stuffed) or click here (PC-Zipped) to download a 1.3
meg PDF file containing Ron Cole's doctoral dissertation titled
"The Electronic Valve Instrument: Nyle Steiner's Unique
Musical Innovation," submitted to the University of Washington
in June of 1998. This is the FULL VERSION with all the chapters!
Check it out EVI and EWI fans! (Requires Adobe
Acrobat Reader).
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Patchman Music Now an Authorized
Midi Solutions Dealer
 The
Canadian company called MIDI Solutions makes a device called
the Breath
Controller Box. It is a breath to MIDI converter for use
with the Yamaha BC series breath controllers. The Breath Controller
Box is a small MIDI-powered device that accepts a Yamaha Breath
Controller as input and generates MIDI data corresponding to
the amount of breath pressure applied to the device. This is
great news since Anatek, manufacturer of the Wind Machine, is
no longer in business.
Click
here to visit the Patchman Music Midi Solutions Store
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 1999
Winter NAMM Show EWI Report
EWI fans!! Check out the 1999 Winter NAMM Akai EWI Report.
It has lots of great photos of some custom colored EWIs guaranteed
to open your eyes.
Click
here for details
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 The
Yamaha Virtual Big Band at the 1997 NAMM Show
Read a very cool report and see photos of the historic
Yamaha Virtual Big Band concert at the 1997 NAMM Show.
Click
here for details
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 Complete Info On The
Yamaha WX5
This website, hosted by Patchman Music, contains detailed
information on the Yamaha WX5 sax-style MIDI Wind Controller.
Click
here for details
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Creating Harmonies With The Akai EWI/EVI
Tips On Creating Harmonies with an Akai EWI wind controller.
An excellent article on how to best make use of the Chord Feature
found on many of the Akai EWI and EVI modules.
Click
here for details
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Manny Fernandez's Excellent VL Programming Tutorial
The HTML version of the VL Programming Guide and Tutorial
for the Yamaha Expert Editor software is available on the web,
courtesy of Manny Fernandez.
Click
here for details
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