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So I found out that the Roland Aerophone AE-20 has bluetooth MIDI. (It's part of the instrument fleet of my wife.) It can be easily connected to my UbuntuStudio system. Shows up in Patchance / Pipewire then.

(I clicked the KDE bluetooth icon bottom right, then on the + symbol in the upcoming menue, and once the Aerophone has bluetooth switched on, it showed up in the list of available devices on the computer.)

However, I couldn't get any actual MIDI messages from it yet. Which might be a different problem.

What does

strings $(which bluetoothd) |grep -i midi

Look like on your system? Not sure if this is a proper indicator.

Here's what it looks like on mine: https://pastes.io/nocairon-s

#linux #bluetooth #ble #midi #bluetoothmidi #linuxaudio #bluez #roland #aerophone

Updated the firmware on my #Aerophone ae30. Not sure what changed. Supposedly new sounds?

Ugh, I got an update on my Roland Aerophone AE-30 repair. 6-8 weeks. They are waiting for a back ordered part.

#roland #aerophone #repair

I’m thinking about augmenting my #aerophone AE-30's sounds by using a bluetooth Midi to an iPad running sampletank. I'm using the X-Vive bluetooth midi adapter to an iPad, and it works really well. And SampleTanks’ strings sound pretty F-ing good.

My only issue would be to switch things. Like if I wanted to switch from Strings to Brass on SampleTank….

And then adding the iPad to the soundsystem....probably need some sort of low-latency lightening port thingy to 1/4" or something…

#ipad @ewi

What is the best way on #wordpress to allow users to upload files? I want to start a patch exchange for @ewi #ewi #aerophone #akaiewi users on my site.

The differences between Roland Aerophones.

https://rolandus.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4414721295643-Aerophone-Differences-between-the-AE-30-AE-20-AE-20W-and-AE-10-AE-10G

#roland #aerophone @ewi

Last night was the first gig I took my Aerophone AE-30 on. It was pretty solid. I used a duduk patch and a synth patch for a cover of "Easy Lover”. Switching is simple using the iOS app I had running on an iPad mini. Also used a slightly modified 60s String patch for background parts for a couple of songs. And two harmonica patches for two harmonica solos (Reggae Woman was one of them).

Generally worked really well.

#ae30 #aerophone @ewi

I'm wondering if there is some sort of site/forum where people are trading Roland AE-20/AE-30 custom patches. Like there are the 5 volumes you can buy on Roland cloud (I have 3 of them), and supposedly all the OTHER things listed for the AE-30 don’t really work with it.

But I have done mods to some of the patches to make them, I think, better. Like the 60’s String patch I added a little Cello to it to give it some depth.

#roland #aerophone #ae30 @ewi