Yamaha WX5 (sadly, no longer in production)

Pros:

Access to these continuous controllers: wind, lip pressure, up rocker switch, down rocker switch, on/off toggle, on/off momentary.

No internal sounds, so you can control any synth of your choice

Small and light

Cons:

Reed and octave switches eventually wear out and need to be replaced (not expensive or difficult)

Note: I don't like the EWI because the bite sensor doesn't give me complete control of pitch variation. Instead, a capacitor determines return time to zero pitch deviation. As a long time sax player, I want to control vibrato intensity and speed - including the return to on pitch, or intentionally play a bit off pitch and very slowly bring the note to pitch. I know you can do that with bending plates, but that's not intuitive for me, and my fingers are busy doing other things.

I haven't tried the Aerophones. But I hear good things about them. The WX5 gives me all I need, and until a feature comes around that makes me want to switch, I'm happy here.


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Last edited by Notes Norton; 02/26/25 06:34 AM.
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