You've got different ways of adding expression to your playing with a synthesizer, not least of which being the traditional design of having a roughly coffee-ta

You've got different ways of adding expression to your playing with a synthesizer, not least of which being the traditional design of having a roughly coffee-table sized control panel covered in knobs. Why limit yourself to trying to make it work like a guitar or a saxophone? The Yamaha EWI is a lot of fun to play, but I don't really see what it adds. You can add a bit of expression to relatively crappy samples, or to some unconvincing physical modelling synthesis of a woodwind instrument, but it's never going to fool anyone. You can use it to drive other parameters on a more "conventional" (by which I mean, creating artificial sounds rather than attempting to emulate acoustic instruments) synthesizer, I guess, but how much does that really help?