Synthesist Floyd Steinberg shared this video, offering his take on getting started with the using an EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument) USB breath controller with the Elektron Digitone.

Using a wind controller allows for different types of expressive performance than would be possible using just the Digitone or the Digitone in combination with a keyboard controller.

“The demo in the beginning is one take, no external effects, Digitone only,” notes Steinberg. “Track 1 is reserved for the EWI, the other 3 tracks use parameter locking and program switching.”

Topics covered:

00:00 demo
02:25 hello
03:10 hardware setup
03:48 choosing an algorithm
04:16 X|Y setup
04:34 amp setup
04:54 breath controller setup: amplitude control
05:49 adjusting modulator amplitude
06:40 breath controller setup: modulator levels
07:49 fine tuning modulator levels
08:08 feature request to #elektron 🙂
08:49 low pass filter setup
09:30 breath controller setup: filter frequency control
10:36 portamento
10:53 overdrive
11:01 amp envelope attack
11:17 effects (chorus, delay)
12:00 bye bye