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offline aphextriplet from your mothers bedroom (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-07 01:38 [#01624878]
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i want to get a purely midi only keyboard. What do you
recommend?


 

offline aphextriplet from your mothers bedroom (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-07 01:40 [#01624879]
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i like this one
LAZY_TITLE


 

offline AlbertoBalsalm from Reykjavík (Iceland) on 2005-06-07 01:41 [#01624881]
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have a look at this

LAZY_KEYBOARDS


 

offline AlbertoBalsalm from Reykjavík (Iceland) on 2005-06-07 01:41 [#01624884]
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i have ozone myself. it has a built-in audio interface


 

offline user unknown from Chally D Scheme Team (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-07 02:42 [#01624921]
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edirol's are good (i use an edirol pcr50)
m-audio's can have good or bad build quality
Korg MS20c with the legacy collection is the bomb


 

offline zero-cool on 2005-06-07 02:54 [#01624926]
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oh dude sweet


 

offline theo himself from +- on 2005-06-07 03:00 [#01624931]
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I have a midi keyboard but I never use it.. I dont know what
program I'd use it in.. though I'm sure it would make things
a lot easier.. cubase? wha


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-06-07 03:12 [#01624941]
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I would actually advise against the edirol. I had a friend
who had one that had two sliders and three knobs that did
not respond. He took it back to the store, they sent it back
to edirol, and two months later he finally got it back and
the two sliders and one of the knobs still didn't work. So
he sent it back, they sent him a brand new one (one month
later no less), that had one knob that was super stiff, and
another that didn't work.

So I would suggest against the edirol keyboards. However, my
edirol studio monitors are immaculate.

I use an m-audio 02. I could use another octave or two (its
only 25 keys), and more than one slider (seven more would be
nice), but its works perfectly. No complaints or problems.


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-06-07 03:15 [#01624943]
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Actually, yeah. You want one of these. The design
is fucking hot, and it comes with three killer virtual
instruments (they really are quite good). The modular design
is very fun (although I haven't used it). It will also most
definately start conversations when you bring people back to
your studio.


 

offline user unknown from Chally D Scheme Team (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-07 03:53 [#01624969]
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the ms20 controller is excellent - i've wasted hours on that
thing

the legacy cell soft synth tho really needs the korg
microkontrol (its mapped out for one) - korg kind of fucked
us over on that one cos the microkontrol is shit ('borrowed'
one and took it back)


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-06-07 04:09 [#01624983]
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Is it the keysize? having knobs sliders keys and a pad
surface is kind of a nice idea.


 

offline theo himself from +- on 2005-06-07 08:56 [#01625200]
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what about my question?


 

offline clint from Silencio... (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-07 09:39 [#01625245]
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I should say my edirol has had no trouble.


 

offline theo himself from +- on 2005-06-07 12:31 [#01625490]
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are you using these w/ cubase? or what.. and how can you
assign different samples to individual keys

I have intakt and kontakt.. I haven't really used them and
from the descriptions I've heard of the two I'm not quite
sure what makes one distinct from the other.. they're both
just samplers? or is intakt just a sampler.. I dont know..
help me out here!!


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-06-07 13:24 [#01625592]
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They both use the same engines...

Intakt is designed more for quick and intuitive sample
mapping. It pretty much allows you to lay your samples out
in an efficient manner, and decide what effects you want for
them quickly. I use it a lot more than Kontakt. When you are
mapping samples, using the browser, just drag the file name
over the keys, and it will lay them down there. The section
you see highlighted in green it the range that that sample
will occupy. The higher up on the keyboard your place them,
the higher the range of keys that will play that sample.

Kontakt is designed more for for transforming samples. It
gives you more options for sample playback (6 compared to
3), but is much harder to map. There are more built in
effects (including convolution reverb), and gives you the
option to design matrixes for sample modulation and such.
You can also write scripts for how the sound is designed in
kontakt 2. It also has a engine designed for more voices
(Eightpart multitimbral, 256 voice polyphonic).

Its substantially more complex, but realistically, you can
use both of them as just a sampler right off the bat.


 

offline Phresch from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2005-06-07 13:35 [#01625613]
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talk to impakt. he will sort you out.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2005-06-07 13:35 [#01625615]
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Scarface


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offline oxygenfad from www.oxygenfad.com (Canada) on 2005-06-07 19:26 [#01626041]
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Midi keyboards are built to break or something meng, like
mine is really starting to come apart.

They are made of really cheap plastic and seem to flaw real
fast.

I bought one in Jan, and now the buttons are sticking (not
from wanking I promise) and the plastic on the knobs (hehehe
KNOBS) are peeling off like bananas or foreskin.

I guess some company is releasing a line of hardcore (hehehe
HARDCORE) keyboards (hehehehe KEYBOARDS) that are suppose to
be really strong and tough (hehehehe STRONG AND TOUGH
hehehe).

Like with wieghted keys and junk like that!

I'm just telling you whats going on with mine, maybe other
people have a great time with theirs, I don't know. But yeah
meng, looking into it is a good idea :)


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2005-06-07 20:14 [#01626067]
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"(hehehehe KEYBOARDS)"

that made me chuckle.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2005-06-07 20:24 [#01626068]
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I hear lots of good things about m-audio, but I bought an
ozone (albeit used) and the thing crapped out in 6 months...
so I don't know what to think about them. I do know that the
keys on it felt like absolute shit and the spacing on them
was even fucked up slightly... so as you can see I'm not a
fan of m-audio' keys.


 

offline chaosmachine from Ottawa (Canada) on 2005-06-07 20:33 [#01626069]
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i tried both the m-audio oxygen-8 and and the edirol
pcr-30.. the edirol was much better quality. the oxygen's
sliders and knobs had a lot of dead space at the top and
bottom ends.. and the keys were wonky.. i duno if their
other products are any better..

my edirol does what it's supposed to, and does it pretty
well.


 

offline chaosmachine from Ottawa (Canada) on 2005-06-07 20:35 [#01626070]
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anyway, my suggestion is to find a store that carries a good
selection, and try them hands on.


 

offline zigzag from … on 2005-06-08 05:17 [#01626285]
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yeah i have a m-audio oxygen 8 too, and i fucking hate that
dead space. and the octave +/- buttons are really cheap and
crap. if i dont press them in a special way the won't
respond. I think ill sell it and by one of these
doepfer


 

offline theo himself from +- on 2005-06-08 11:47 [#01626750]
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and in/kontakt are run within other programs, or can they
operate independently? and can you record within in/kontakt?


 

offline theo himself from +- on 2005-06-08 14:00 [#01626838]
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oh ok.


 


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