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Hi guys, I just noticed there is a video clip of Jeff Kashiwa live-looping on a Lexicon Jamman (?) with an EWI 4000s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUtdP3jQKUA It's not very spectacular music style-wise, pretty traditional Weather Report influenced fusion jazz, but Jeff is such a good player and this is a great chance to see this new model of the EWI (Electric Wind Controller) that has good built-in synth sounds. In this video you can see how Jeff plays deep bass lines and high pitched "soprano sax" melodies almost at the same time by using the same synth patch, only jumping up and down in octave while overdubbing into the jamman. The new EWI also has good "synth-like" performing options like portamento and breath controlled attack- or filter cutoff envelopes which you don't see demonstrated in this video. Myself I was incredibly lucky to pick up an EWI 4000s for a very friendly price in San Jose and since I got back and started playing it I think I have never used my pitch-down-octave patches at all! It's so cool to loop with an instrument that covers over eight octaves. Earlier this year I was very interested in getting a Chapman Stick to loop with, for the huge octave span, but my EWI has completely seduced me to forget about that Stick Crush ;-) Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) http://www.myspace.com/looproom