30 Jun
2005
30 Jun
'05
12:14 p.m.
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 at 22:16 -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
Hello,
I'd like a simple keyboard for plonking out notes to help me learn my
choral music. First, I'd like a piece of software that accomplishes
this by using my usual PC keyboard.
I bet there's more than one but I'm not familiar with them.
Second, I'd like actual keyboard
hardware that can operate by itself, or connected to a computer
through either USB or MIDI (preferably both). I don't want any
extraneous features on the keyboard, although I'd be interested in
hearing what features people find particularly useful. Velocity
sensitive keys that feel like a piano to some degree would be a major
plus, but that mostly depends on the difference in price. Any
suggestions?
I got a M-Audio Radium61 and I'm happy with it, although it doesn't
exactly match what you're looking for. Take a gander at this page:
http://m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.list&ID=midikeyboardcontrollers
In particular look at the Keystation line as some of those are weighted
or semi-weighted, and are otherwise simple (no knobs and stuff), and so
one would hope cheaper for the same number of keys (or higher quality).
Oh, and you should be able to find those cheaper than the MSRP prices
listed there. And I'm not positive that every one of those keyboards
works with linux so you might ask about that specifically here when you
have narrowed it down (no matter who makes the keyboard you're about to
buy).
--
.O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est.
..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg
OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach
---------------------------------------------------------------------
GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460