EWIUSB.COM
Electronic Wind Instrument Information and More

A few bugs and mistakes were made in version 1 of my replacement skin which many users pointed out and I was able to fix fairly quickly. The biggest of these was a number of elements in the 'third voice' of the 'mixing' tab not showing up or rendering under other elements. (sloppy cut and paste job on my part - my bad!)

So be sure to grab the latest copy, and if you find any further bugs or have ideas to make Aria more useful, please use our contact form to pass them along.

Oh, the troubleshooting and first time user pages have been somewhat delayed but I will get to them as soon as I can.

After mulling over the possibilites of making Aria better given what I've learned of it's XML capabilites, I've finally put together a replacement skin for it that reduces the application size to make it netbook friendly, moves more commonly used controls like transpose to a more useful location, expanded the controls so you can see your current settings for all four instruments simultaneously, and a host of other improvements.

So be sure to check it out here, and if you have any ideas/suggestions feel free to use our contact form.

In other news, sometime over the next two weeks I'm going to be adding a troubleshooting page. The existing documentation doesn't cover a lot of the stuff you I had issues with at first, in particular just getting the thing working right using ASIO4ALL in the first place - since it seems that universally the stock ASIO drivers put out by the various sound card makers for Windows are rubbish.

Ok, after two months of prepwork, content generation, coding, drug addiction, alcoholism, sadism, beastiality, mutilation, murder, vampirism, necrophilia, cannibalism, not to mention a gamut of sexual goodies... We are finally ready for launch. (Musicians, gotta love our sense of humor)

There is still much for me to do - the news system right now currently has no multi-page navigation, so news will load as one giant list... and I'd like to add a links page to which people can submit their youtube videos of playing the instrument. (I'm going to be nice and not torture people with my butchering of songs). I'm also thinking on adding a forums, though that may take a bit since I'd like to skin said forum to match.

In any case, Welcome to my site. I am delighted you could come and am certain you will find your stay here most illuminating. Think of me as your unseen servant, and believe that during your stay here I shall be with you in spirit. May you find the answer that you seek. It is here, I promise you... and now, auf wiedersehen.

That wasn't too painful since I was able to recycle some code from another site I'm hoping to launch before the month is out. Next up is the contact form which I think I'm going to try using my new 'universal form creator/validator' on.

Things are shaping up, I just might be able to launch today - better late than never.

Work continues apace on the site as I start to work on the news subsystem. I've been away from this project for over a month with other concerns, and have decided to see if I can belt the remaining bits out in a single day so we can finally have an 'official' launch tomorrow.

Since I have three or four pages worth of technical data written up about the EWIUSB, I figured why not build a website about it - Lo and behold the domain name EWIUSB.COM is not registered. While I have some trepidation about registering a domain name that is someone else's trademark, I've done it before and usually ended up on good terms with the people behind the products because, well - you do a good job, it's free advertising for them.

I just have to make sure I dot every t and cross every i.... wait, that's not right... In any case I just need to make sure I cross link to them heavily, explain on the page we are in no way official or affiliated, and Akai should have no issues with my using the name.