EWI and Sonar X2?

Has anybody had any success using A USB EWI with Aria.
Jack the Quiet Bear

I have Akai trying to help me with some problems, so far no luck. My question about Sonar is How to use the EWI to work with aria Control. I wish to record Horn tracks using the wind controller with Garritan and Aria. My problem is trying to get EWI to work in Sonar. The EWI only seems to work with its own Garritan 4 tracks. That are included with its softmare. I am using a PC and have used Cakewalk DAWs for over 20 years. I am using Sonar X2 64 bit. Within EWI when I try to click on the controllers menu The program stops responding. I tell you this if it may be a hint to the problem. AKAI has not been able to solve that problem so far. I have set the EWI as the inputting instrument, I see The EWI garritan iinstruments as available in the Aria screen. But if I select anything other than the EWI instruments I get no results. (Personal orch 5, Instant orch, Jaab.) I hope that you might let me know the hoops that you jump through to have EWI recognized just as my Kbds are. Thank you for any advice you might have.
Jack the Quiet Bear

Mario D,
I'm sorry this has taken so long to reply to. I have tried everything, and have come to the conclusion that Sonar X2 just doesn't like the EWI software. The software is 2009 with no updates. Is your EWI software any later?
 
When starting Sonar I get the message of no inputs or outputs. Having the EWI software open allows me to choose EWI as the inputting midi instrument in sonar, however even though one of my choices is EWI, Sonar continues to tell me that I have not selected any inputting instruments. From here I can go no further.
In Aria I can see the EWI instruments as valid VST instruments along with GPO, IO, and JAAB, I cannot select any of the EWI instruments without having Sonar stop responding. It just Quits. I can still run Sonar Flawlessly without EWI present.
I do media film scoring with many other sample libraries but once the EWI software is started, my work comes to a screeching halt. If Anyone would like to buy an EWI I have one for sale. Perhaps it will run on a Mac. I'm a PC guy.
Since I have deadlines to make I've given up on even keeping the EWI software installed. I'm having some success with my Yamaha WX5, but the MIDI signal is very quiet, and my thumb is not as precise on faster passages as I would like. I wish that the WX5 had that 20 millisecond delay that the EWI has. It would make up for my left thumb sloppiness. It's hard to relearn octave key after 50 years of playing sax professionally. I am glad that the sequencing angels are looking out for you and your EWI, perhaps I just pissed them off.
Jack Marek (The Quiet Bear)