AP500 Pro Electronic Wind Instrument, Synthesizer, 120 Sounds, Voice Control, Bluetooth, 8 Octaves, Breath Curve Adjustable, Electric Saxophone

After playing an EWI 5000 for over 10 years and loving it, I liked the sounds and reviews I saw on YouTube und bought an AP500. After using it for only a few weeks I haven't fully fine-tuned it, but I am very impressed. My band went so far to tell me that I sound better on the AP500 than on the EWI 5000...

The saxes I was never too happy with on the EWI definitely are superior, and the violins are most welcome. Ideal for tunes like 'Angel of Montgomery' etc, the saxes used with the growl function are very impressive when soloing on 'Walk on the Wild Side', Total Control', 'Spooky', 'Echo Beach' etc.

The EWI fingering made it a zero learning curve, and settings are easy to manage. As usual, some of the many sounds are of less use. But all in all, a winner!

Las posiciones cambian por completo porque ahora estás obligado a hacer ciertas notas con los rodillos, no sirve para tocar como un saxofón convencional, es demasiado torpe el movimiento, no tiene notas más agudas ni graves a las que uno está acostumbrado a tocar en el saxofón alto, lo peor de todo es que por ser de México no puedo devolverlo, por lo demás está bien pero no es para músicos de saxofón, es algo más experimental a lo que tienes que adaptarte por completo y olvidarte de algunas posiciones que tenías en otro saxofón

SOUNDS GREAT, WILL NEED MORE PRACTISE, LOVE IT!

Hello everyone!
I am so happy with my purchase, everything you have described about this product, True. it is easy to handle the product with the large screen. everything works as it should and more is available than AP-300 pro. and fast delivery. Thank you

Best regards
Sami Khosnaw

So much to like about the AP500 Pro. Smaller octave rollers than my AKAI EWI Solo make a huge difference in difficult spots. Playing into headphones with an accompaniment program coming into the instrument live via Bluetooth is great and smooth, easy to mix. The 118 sounds (drum patches not included) that you can mix to play two instruments in unison, combined with a 1-10 mixer on the second instrument, makes over a quarter MILLION possible timbres possible. AP 500 players will have great fun combining Western and Asian instruments, or even plucked or synth sounds, to find unique and exciting new sounds. Delivery to the Vancouver area was about ten days over the Christmas week, with a bit of an importing fee, but still overall the least expensive wind-synth in my collection.

The customization possibilities are well-presented on screen and easy to navigate. I used to hate neck-straps but the one that comes with this is both comfortable and good-looking. And hardly necessary, the machine is wonderfully light.

The touch keys take some getting used to, but the ease of playing makes up for it. There are enough options for up and down semitones among keys that can be combined, that any difficult passage will probably have a surprisingly easy solution. Remember that the fingering chart that comes with the instrument is just a starting point, and adding keys to any fingering has a definite effect without ever losing sound quality, as an acoustic instrument often does with alternate fingerings.

A less rubbery mouthpiece option would be good for long sessions where I get lazy and bend it too far, blocking the airflow. Perhaps separate options in reverb and chorus for headphones and speakers might be a good improvement: I find I want less with headphones and more when using the on-board speaker. Maybe an option to change the font in the display to something more modern might be a good idea; SimSun is rather dated. I\'m a bit terrified that if I ever play live and someone sees which model this is they will shout out the name of an instrument and the voice control will make the change immediately! But these are very small critiques; overall, the AP 500 Pro is a first-rate wind-synth, fun to play, lots of features and options, looks great and feels comfortable. It has earned a new box-top stand beside my workstation so I can play a few notes whenever I want to take a break from other work. Bravo, Greaten!