
Professional PerformanceĮWIs are the only choice for serious wind players looking to make music electronically. We designed EWI USB to give wind players the expressive musical capabilities previously found only in much more expensive instruments. For over 20 years, Akai Professional has studied the art of playing saxophone, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and other traditional winds, and developed electronic wind instruments that enable wind players to enjoy the same expressive control as in an acoustic instrument. Premium PedigreeĪkai Professional is the first name in electronic wind instruments. Akai Professional’s decades of experience in wind and electronic music instruments are rolled into our most user friendly - and most affordable - EWI ever.

Internal Midi").EWI USB is an electronic wind instrument for musicians looking for an easy-to-play, easy-to-use controller. Now the midi signal flows from your EWI-USB to the utility and then to your DAW input as shown in the diagram above (replace "IAC Bus 1" with the respective loopback port names on Windows, e.g.

In your DAW, select "IAC Bus 1" for midi input. In the utility, select "EWI-USB" for midi input and "IAC Bus 1" as output. We have tested with LoopBe ( After setting up a loopback port, restart your DAW and the Akai EWI USB Control utility. On Windows, you will need to get a third party loopback driver (LoopBe, MIDI Yoke, or similar). The loopback ports should now appear as "IAC Bus" in the list of available MIDI ports on your Mac.

Make sure it is online and has at least one port created. Spotlight for "Audio MIDI Setup" and open its MIDI Window. On The Mac, a Loopback Driver is part of the system. For this you need a MIDI Loopback Driver ("virtual midi cable"):ĮWI-USB => Akai EWI USB Control => Loopback Driver => DAW Here are the instructions how to use EWI Control with your DAW:Īkai EWI USB Control can be chained between the EWI-USB hardware and your DAW.
