Steinerphone EWI Demo Michael Brecker with Larry Carlton 1987 VH1

Michael Brecker demoing and playing the Nyle Steiner Steinerphone EWI on "My One And Only Love" with Larry Carlton. 1987 on the VH-1 New Visions show.

[@gitzah]

Man is this magical! The Brecker EWI sound teleports right back to the 80's.

[@mcmike100]

I started working at Akai as product manager at the beginning of 1987. A month later I took my first trip to Japan for product meetings. But on the first day (when I was jet lagged to the max) we went to the Tokyo Music Fair where the Michael Brecker Band was playing. Then, the band was him, Mike Stern-guitar, Jeff Andrews-bass, Kenny Kirkland-piano and Omar Hakim-drums. That was my first time meeting them. Michael suggested we split a taxi for the long ride back to the hotel. And with my jet lagged brain, I got to know Michael Brecker. I saw that band many times after that.

[@PatchmanMusic]

Great story!

[@artinsound]

thanks 4 sharing

[@hansbroekhuijsen3894]

mcmike100 ,

[@christophmueller1087]

Wow, obviously one of the experiences you‘ll never forget! Mike Brecker is one of the all-time-titans of music. he must have been a very humble and nice personality. I only saw him once live in concert. But nowadays in KZbin times there is a lot more of him to Discovery! Great! Rest in Peace, Michael!

[@talkboxerr4463]

What a wonderful Story! Thanks for Sharing!

[@St3ph4n3]

We all miss him as a musician... And surely all his friends miss the kind man. Powerful and so fine, and emotional. Life is hard sometimes.

[@macronencer]

Ah, that Steps Ahead sound. Had their albums on cassette in my youth, cruising to the pub in my car with music-loving friends, we played them quite a bit. Miss you, Mister Brecker! So sad to have lost such a great artist.

[@mcmike100]

The Master! Rest in peace.

[@funklover24]

Michael Brecker and Larry Carlton. ❤ Two wonderful musicians, love their records and still hear their music in my car. 👌

[@Jez2008UK]

Michael was taken from us way, way, way, way too soon.

[@rightchordleadership]

The GOAT

[@asoleg1957]

Two Magnificent Musicians!!! Super!!! :)

[@christopherbuilder5354]

My one and only love ❤️

[@yggdrasil9039]

MB = Genius.

[@ireedman]

I had to please to collaborate with Akai and Michael and Andy Muson to create the commercial EWI. Yo

[@Anomatron]

Really?? Ask them to allow custom patches to be uploaded to the new EWI models... the 4000 has this, but the 5000 is borderline useless without a laptop 🫤

[@haru_jazzsax]

🔥🔥🔥

[@zipherdias420]

the magic starts at 5:40

[@donaldfisher3047]

Back in the day when LC rocked the mullet

[@kevinmanns7170]

Truly awful 80's Muzak.

[@artinsound]

are those music times ever gonna come back?

[@3DPDK]

At the time this video was recorded I lived in Virginia and traveled the state for my work. No matter where I went in the state you could find jazz on the radio and there was always live jazz in some club nearby. I just spent the last 13 years around New Orleans and was hard pressed to find any jazz anywhere whether on the radio or being played live. The music isn't gone, it's just gone into hiding. What is being called jazz these days is either "show tunes" or synthesized loops with a swing or Latin beat. KZbin videos teaching how to improvise to blues and jazz is being taught by Europeans and Pakistanis. An Indian teaching the country where jazz was born how to play blues scales. pfff! Good on the guy from Pakistan ... but pfffft!

[@Banoonoo]

Been looking at the EWI 5000. I think this just pushed me over the edge!

[@wow12303]

get a 4000, 5000 is a straight downgrade objectively

[@wd25a]

@@tedsta Why is it a downgrade? genuinely interested.

[@TheBeatfox]

@@wd25a 4000s owner here, who researched exactly that before buying it a couple years ago. The 5000 is sample-based and uses a fixed library of samples, with an emphasis on imitating the sounds of acoustic wind instruments, whereas the 4000s uses VA synthesis and is able to accurately reproduce the sounds & endless programmability of its analog synth predecessors. While the 5000 includes some synthy sampled patches, they can't be modified like a true synth and don't respond to expressive playing in the same way. As for the 5000's acoustic patches, they're decent, but not entirely realistic sounding by modern standards; if realism is what you're after, you'd be better served by buying some high-quality sample libraries or modeled instrument software (like SWAM) and playing those via MIDI from your 4000s or the cheaper EWI USB controller.

[@wd25a]

@@TheBeatfox Okay, thanks for the reply. I have the entry USB only version and use software synths and software sample instruments too. I had wondered if it was somehow operationally/mechanically inferior in terms of the breath sensor or the finger sensors. Or maybe people were suffering more latency, things like that. Seems not, which is good. My only gripe with the USB only version is the somewhat unnecessary downgrade of the transpose rollers, which are both slippy and limited in octaves, but you get used to the former. Apparently Akai dropped the 4000s in 2019. Something of a shame that they don't keep improving on the EWI with the addition of a higher grade USB version and a new high end version with a true analogue synth for the pro market. I hope they keep making a USB EWI though.

[@wd25a]

@@tedsta It's virtual analogue (DSP) isn't it, not actual analogue but thanks for the reply, no need for apologies. I was tempted to get one of these older 4000s (now out of production). The PC is much more powerful for virtual analogue synths and sample instruments though so probably would end up just using VSTis anyway. I would rather have a decent DSP virtual synth than dated samples any day of the week.

[@trumpetboss5483]

It's bynne real

[@claymationwaves]

Sha laaaaaaaaaa

[@filippobubbico5721]

Marco Travaglio Cla