18650 batteries are not AA batteries. It’s a totally different thing.
Someone else care to speak up ?
ADDED : The Aerophone uses AA (HR6) rechargeable Nickel-Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) battery with a nominal output of 1.2 V.
ADDED : The 18650 battery is also significant larger than AAs, fortunately, so it is hard to interchange them by mistake.
ASIDE : How i know about these batteries
These are the same batteries used in the Model S and X Teslas, ( by the thousands ) and popular for DIY projects. Hence their low cost, relative reliability, and availability. Good engineering decision by ASM.
You pushed me through to see something i had not realized. Two of those bigger batteries, have about the same voltage as six of the smaller ones. So it’s probably a real similar sort of swap.
Back to your original post.
I am now wondering the same things, and have fingers crossed they have some other, hopefully harmonious technique available.
The scale options, like on the HS, including the microtonal ones, was a pleasing discovery, and could be part of this.
I’m not going to waste my time with more batteries. Never got close to the advertised run time with AE. Juice literal ain’t worth the squeeze. For me it’s a nice, slim power bank for the win. In addition to providing enough juice to completely ignore power as a concern, it adds a realistic weight to the bottom half of AE similar to the bell of a real horn. Wired my stand to charge the bank whenever i sit it down.
Will do the same with DS as long as it isn’t significantly heavier than AE which I doubt.
That is very true, and I have played those gigs in the past as well! In fact I remember using my old Yamaha WX to add a (kinda) bari sax part to a horn section in a cover band. I’ve also had a go at a few Stevie Wonder-style harmonica solos in the past.
My disdain for sax/woodwind patches is more based on instances where there’s an entire solo, quite exposed in the mix, that goes on forever and just sounds so utterly cheesy.
Either way, this is looks like a stellar piece of kit, really looking forward to getting one.
I should have waited to order, now I’m on Sweetwater site looking at when they expect them to ship clicking refresh like Dorothy’s heels chanting “theres no place like home” as if it’s gonna manifest DS at my doorstep tomorrow. It’s going to be a looooooong wait for me.
I really don’t like anticipation unless I can control exactly when it ends
Bernie’s my guy. Despite playing sax for over 3 decades I took some classes from him when I got my first EWI many years ago to help with the transition, get extra patches, templates and DAW setup tips etc.
Wonder if guys like Roland’s Alistair Parnell, Matt Traum or Becker were involved at all or stayed 10 toes down with Roland AE project.
Re: abbr. I’m not overthinking that. DS will do for me as it’s the least letters. If folks confuse that for drum synth or anything else given context clues and dedicated thread, god bless em .
One thing I really dislike is how ASM followed Akai’s EWI design choice with the prominent branding placement. I REALLY hate that. IMO, it ruins an otherwise great design by advertising what it is an who made it to the audiences that I cultivate when they should just be focused on what I’m playing.
Roland and Yamaha understood the assignment. After every performance, people can ask wth my AE is and other info I have liberty to share or not. Makes it feel more like a real instrument. Of course there is still branding but it isn’t loud, obvious or distracting at all.
It’s just one of those little Big deals to me that I’ll eventually get over. I get the biz end of the decision and that most synth companies tag their keyboards up like graffiti artists but EWIs feel more intimate than keyboards imo.
Obviously didn’t stop me from buying but hopefully I can figure out some non destructive way of covering it up. Seems kind of obnoxious that it appears on pretty much every angle. The last thing I want is for people to be googling what it is during a performance which is what my ADD demands of me when I see huge logos and branding on gear.lol. (Which is precisely why some companies shamefully do it.)
Got to listen to a poorly done video ( so no link ) showing off the Chord Rotate patches.
No explanation of how these work, and the player seemed clueless on that as well, but i’m convinced that used as intended these could be quite interesting and useful. ( Control of the Chord Rotation / Spread ? )
Will be digging in to these patches ( soon as the Dio arrives ) to understand how they are made and how they are used.
I am thinking there are also some tricks here too, for the Dio – Tips and Tricks thread.
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Had a good laugh at some Youtube commenter crowing about the ignorance of ASM putting up a video, with Oh Horror – Jazz !
Saw that comment, so weird. Anyone who thinks jazz is “inaccessible” needs expand the range music they listen to. If anyone can listen to Giant Steps and not think “Damn, that’s cool”, then I have no respect for that person’s musical taste.
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