Akai Ewi4000s Manuel utilisateur

20 November 2005

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UniQuest for EWI

4000s

Quick Start

Thank you and congratulations on your choice of the Akai Professional EWI

4000s Electric Wind Instrument. While the EWI 4000s is equipped with a

sophisticated on-board Analog Modeling Synthesizer, UniQuest expands on

this feature by giving you remote access to all sound parameters from a

connected Mac or PC computer. In addition to complete real-time editor

functions, UniQuest for EWI 4000s also serves as a back-up and

organizational tool to save and catalog your EWI 4000s sound creations. The

editor will also display any notes you play on your EWI 4000s in real-time.

1.0 Getting Ready: Instructions

UniQuest uses MIDI System Exclusive messages to communicate with your EWI

4000s. This means you’ll need to make certain connections before you install and

run the software for the first time. Here we will explain the steps you need to take.

Although the illustrations are PC Windows XP based, these instructions also apply

to Mac OS X users.

System Requirements

Minimum requirements are a Mac G4 with 256 MB of Ram, or a Pentium III with

512 MB of RAM. As everybody knows, faster is better.

You will also need a MIDI interface. fortunately, these can be purchased for under

$50 these days.

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Your computer requires one free MIDI In port and one free MIDI Out port to run

UniQuest. Please ensure that your MIDI interface is installed correctly and that all

filtering options (especially ones that affect System Exclusive) are disa-

bled.

Make sure your hardware instrument is properly connected to your computer. Two-

way (duplex) MIDI communication is essential to the UniQuest software's installa-

tion & operation. You will need to connect two MIDI cables between your compu-

ter’s MIDI interface and your instrument as follows:

Ok, this one is pretty obvious. Still, better safe than sorry...

Here’s where you install the UniQuest software from the CD that shipped with your

EWI 4000s. You can also download the software free of charge from the Akai Pro-

fessional Website (www.akaipro.com). The download will be archived as a zip file.

When you run UniQuest for EWI 4000s for the first time, you will be prompted to

choose the MIDI In port that the software will use:

Click on the Ye s button to open the MIDI In Ports dialog - Here you will select the

actual MIDI port that connects to your EWI 4000s.

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You may have noticed that some of UniQuest for EWI 4000s’ dialogs, menu bars

and icons have the words ‘Midi Quest’ in them. This is to be expected, since

UniQuest for EWI 4000s is built on technology developed by Sound Quest Music

Software (www.squest.com). This instrument will also available as an included

instrument module for users of Sound Quest’s Midi Quest & Midi Quest XL prod-

ucts in the near future.

You should now see the following choices in the Midi In Ports Dialog:

In this illustration, there are 2 MIDI In ports to choose from - Your system will

show whatever MIDI ports it has available. For best results when you are using

other MIDI processing programs in conjunction with UniQuest, your MIDI inter-

face should have multi-client drivers. If you do not see any ports here, your MIDI

interface drivers are not correctly installed and will need correction before you can

proceed. When you have selected the MIDI In you want, please click ‘Ok’ to pro-

ceed.

When you run UniQuest for the first time, you will also be prompted to choose the

MIDI Out port that the software will use:

Click on the Ye s button to open the MIDI Out Ports dialog - Here you will select the

actual MIDI port that connects to your EWI 4000s.

You should now see your connected MIDI interface ports as choices in this Dialog

(your system will have different MIDI ports available): Please select the port you

have connected to your EWI 4000s’ MIDI in and click Ok.

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UniQuest will now open. On Windows XP you will see an Application window that

contains the Studio Window:

On Mac OS X you will see the Application menu and the Studio Window:

The studio window contains the EWI 4000s instrument module: This is the main

interface used to transfer sound data between your EWI 4000s and the software.

The Instrument Module (Windows XP)

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The Instrument Module (Mac OS X)

We’ll now explore the main controls of the instrument module.

•The Instrument Graphic: More than just a pretty picture, this graphic of the

EWI 4000s can be single-clicked to give the instrument module focus, and can

be double-clicked to upload (or get) the currently selected data from the instru-

ment.

•The Set List: This control allows you to choose the EWI 4000s data component

you wish to work with, such as Preset, Preset Bank or a more complex grouping

of components called a Set. On installation, the Set List will have ‘Default Set’

selected as shown above.

•The Action Bar: This bar contains three mini-buttons labeled GET, NEW and

OPEN. When you click on one of the mini-buttons, it will act on the currently

selected Set List component. For example, to ‘get’ the preset bank from your

EWI 4000s, select ‘Preset Bank’ in the Set List and click on the GET mini-button

within the Action Bar.

•The Configuration Mini-Button: This mini-button sets the MIDI Port, SysEx

ID, MIDI Channel and other properties of the currently selected component in

the Set List. When ‘Default Set’ is selected in the Set List, this button sets the

default properties of all the components.

We’ll get more into the instrument module’s settings later on in this document. For

now, it’s important that you configure the module to use the correct MIDI in and out

ports (if you have selected more than one in step 5) and to configure the module to

communicate on the same MIDI and SysEx channels as your EWI 4000s - If this is

not done correctly, UniQuest will not work.

When UniQuest is run for the first time, it searches for your EWI 4000s and sets the

correct MIDI Ports and SysX channel in the instrument module automatically. This

process is called AutoSense, and it should not take more than a few seconds if you

have selected only one or two MIDI In and Out ports (back in Step 5).

If you have selected a single MIDI in and MIDI out port, you may not see the Auto-

Sense dialog because it opens and closes too fast to you to notice. On the other hand

if you have selected 8 ins and 8 outs (from a multi-port MIDI interface for exam-

ple), AutoSense could take longer than 5 seconds to complete.

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The AutoSense dialog is shown here:

If the AutoSense procedure cannot detect your instrument’s settings, you will need

to make sure your Midi Interface drivers are installed correctly and that all cables

are connected as per the diagram in Step 2. Make sure the output of your computer

is connected to the input of the EWI 4000s (and vice-versa). Also ensure that no

SysEx filtering is enabled on your MIDI interface.

Although UniQuest will now have detected the correct MIDI Ports and SysX Chan-

nel used by your EWI 4000s, you still need to set the MIDI channel manually:

To open the default settings dialog for the instrument module, make sure that the

‘Default Set’ is selected in the Set List and then click on the Configuration mini-

button.

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This will open the default Settings Dialog for the EWI 4000s instrument module :

The Port and SysX (Comm) Channel settings will already have been set in this dia-

log by the AutoSense procedure. This means that the Port In and Port Out settings

controls will be set to the same MIDI ports that AutoSense discovered your EWI

4000s connected to. Likewise, the Comm Ch will be set to the SysEx communica-

tion channel that your EWI 4000s used to respond to the AutoSense message.

By default, the EWI 4000s is configured to use Comm Ch 0 and MIDI Ch 1.

UniQuest is also configured to these values by default, so everything will be set cor-

rectly unless you plan to set your EWI 4000s to a different MIDI channel.

The SysEx ID (Comm Ch) used by your EWI 4000s is related to its currently

selected MIDI channel as follows: A MIDI channel setting of 1 equals a SysEx ID

setting of 0, a MIDI channel setting of 2 equals a SysEx ID setting of 1, and a MIDI

channel setting of 3 equals a SysEx ID setting of 2, and so on. You must set the

Comm Ch to be 1 less than the MIDI Channel in UniQuest’s settings for the soft-

ware to work properly!

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Now you will find out if UniQuest is correctly configured by uploading (or getting)

the Internal Preset Bank from your EWI 4000s. This test is also an essential opera-

tion since you’ll need to protect these sounds from accidents while you learn to use

your new editor software.

1. Select ‘Preset Bank’ with the Set List control...

2. Click on the ‘Get’ mini-button...

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3. The Preset Bank uploads from your EWI 4000s in about 12 seconds.

4. The Uploaded Data Opens As A Bank Editor Window (Windows XP)

Congratulations! You have just successfully installed UniQuest EWI 4000s and

configured the software to work with your EWI 4000s.

Please save the set you have just uploaded by selecting File : Save EWI 4000s Pre-

set Bank from the UniQuest application menu. UniQuest will save this data as a file

on your computer’s hard drive, and you are now free to explore the sounds you have

just transferred to UniQuest by stepping through the bank entries and auditioning

each one.

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1.1 Exploring the Bank Editor Window

You can now explore each of the sounds you have uploaded by clicking on an entry

in the bank window. When you do this, the sound data will be downloaded through

MIDI to the EWI 4000s temporary editing buffer, allowing you to audition the cur-

rent selection. This will not overwrite any of the EWI 4000s presets, so it is com-

pletely safe to do.

More interestingly, you can also split the Bank Editor window to see the current

preset loaded into the Virtual Instrument Interface editor. This is achieved by press-

ing the Bank Editor Window’s Editor-Split button, which has the icons of 3 faders

and two knobs on it:

1.1.1 The Split Bank Window

Once the Bank Editor has been split, you can edit the Bank in the left side, and edit

the current preset in the right side:

If you have not yet selected a preset, nothing will be shown on the right side of the

split.

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