4 Dec
2007
4 Dec
'07
10:30 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:04:33PM +0100, Jorge Salgueiro wrote:
well in fact, i need advice in two keybd:
one for me to control bristol. maybe with knobs? is it dificult to program
the knobs to work with bristol?
one for my girlfriend, she plays the piano and i though (as a Christmas
present) in a usbmidi keyboard so she could practice with her notebook
Tou can find lots of old MIDI controllers that were built much better than anything you
could buy new today, and can sometimes be had for cheap. Simply plug the into your MIDI
interface, and off you go.
One night at a gig, I had brain fart and forgot to bring my second MIDI controller. I
borrowed a cheap Yamaha all-in-one keyboard at home-- the kind of toy you'd expect to
buy at Radio Shack-- and it worked great and got me through the show. Had velocity and
sustain pedal and everything. Anything with a MIDI out port will work-- you can probably
find stuff at garage sales if you're really going low-end.
If you want USB, the M-Audio keyboards are, in my experience, utter crap. However, they
seem to be the cheapest things out there. I bought a used Axiom and it died after a couple
months of use. Garbage.
-ken