What keyboard should I get?

[visiblemember]

I'm reporting back about the keyboard. I picked up the Behringer UMA25S for 70 euro. It is very plastic and doesn't feel very good to play. I don't know how to play the piano, but I do know this thing feels awful. in any case, it hooked right up to my laptop via USB and the ASIO4ALL driver. The most fun I'm having is with GFORCE impOSCar. In that situation the keys don't matter as much as the 8 mappable knobs. Takes me back to 'Wish You Were Here'.  So, a new musical adventure and hopefully better productivity with my song writing and protecting. Thanks for the tips! Thom

[cuthbert]

Thanks, Tony - that video was very illustrative (although also not my direction, musically).

I'm into the cheaper pieces of gear these days, and a pocket synth like the Roland PMA-5 might be right at home. I'm not so much into sequencing, but I do like playing parts 'live' while recording, and a new way to control an old midi keyboard or module might be cool.

Might pick one up on eBay if I can get it for cheap...

[tony]

Why would you want to drive an external synth?  What would that do?  I'm not questioning your motives but I'm not sure if I get what you are asking.

I'm interested in other types of midi controllers, as opposed to the usual keyboard interface (not that I have a problem with keys), but that's what I was getting at when I mentioned a midi stylophone earlier.

This comment stuck in my mind and I remembered that I was seriously looking at one of these at one time (and then I lost on the horses/had to pay a fine/had to buy a bottle of something/xmas/whatever) and I thought that it would be a handy thing to have.  It has the x/y pad of the kaosillator but you can also assign the pads.  That becomes handy in a zillion ways but you can give each pad the tone of a scale playing whatever sample you like, and then you are away.

Anyway, I thought it might fit your needs.  It's the Korg PadKontrol.



http://www.korg.com/Product.aspx?pd=414