(Musicians who pine for a BC3, but who baulk at the $300+ price it fetches on eBay, should look into a Turkish company called MRTaudio. The last model, the BC3, went out of production in 2011. It was followed by later models with more features, such as a headband, and adjustable threshold and slope controls. The first, the BC1, was introduced in 1983 along with the DX7, which had a ⅛" input jack for it. Yamaha also made breath controllers that were not instruments themselves but were air-pressure sensors designed to be used with keyboards. All of them can be played either in EWI or EVI mode.Ī few other companies have dipped their toes into the breath-controller stream–Casio with its not-quite-a-toy DH series, and the impressive but short-lived Synthophone, which was an actual alto sax packed with sensors and electronics–though none were able to achieve any market longevity. Today Akai makes one model that is just a controller, the EWI USB, and two that have built-in synths. Akai first licensed his designs in 1987 and sold complete controller and synthesizer systems. Steiner, a trumpet player, started with the Electronic Valve Instrument (EVI), which used an interface based on a trumpet, and followed it with the Electronic Woodwind Instrument (EWI). Akai makes instruments designed by Nyle Steiner, whose first electronic wind instruments date back before MIDI.
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