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Brett Siler
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 Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 6:00 am Post subject: Ulitimate midi keyboard |
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I'm looking for a great midi keyboard that I can use in conjunction with propellarhead Reason. Basically I want to set it up to be playable like a nice synth that you can tweak knobs and to change filters and/or modulation in real time. I also want to be able to do drum programing with it. Weighted keys aren't that important but if the keyboard has it that's cool too.
So the check list is
-works well with Reason (I have version 3.0)
-61 or 88 keys (weighted optional)
-pitch and modulation wheels
-knobs for changing resonace, cut off, ect...
-Pads for drum programing
-easy to assign knobs and pads
what's your suggestions?
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Gregg Juke
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:41 am Post subject: Re: Ulitimate midi keyboard |
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Do you have to have pads for drum programming, or could you use keys?
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Brett Siler
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 6:26 pm Post subject: Re: Ulitimate midi keyboard |
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I suppose I could go with out pads.I could probably get a seperate midi drum pad like one of those older m-audio things that had the wood paneling for cheap.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:44 pm Post subject: Re: Ulitimate midi keyboard |
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| The Novation Remotes supposedly are decent and easy to setup with templates, but IMHO sort of expensive. I've not had good luck with M-Audio (products in general) MIDI keyboards and sold both that I had. As long as I've been using Reason I still use just a mouse and I automate movements with the sequencer...I've tried getting into playing it with a control just never got into it. |
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Nate Dort
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:12 pm Post subject: Re: Ulitimate midi keyboard |
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I was in a similar boat last year, and I picked up an Akai MPK61 after reading a bunch of reviews and deciding how much I wanted to spend. It's been a good addition to the studio.
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Gregg Juke
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:12 pm Post subject: Re: Ulitimate midi keyboard |
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If you can drum from the keyboard, I nominate the Roland Juno Gi, the newest andnext step-up from my beloved Juno G.
I can let you hear some sound samples sometime if you like, but the engine is killer-- really nice sounds with 16 tracks of on-board MIDI sequencing.
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Brett Siler
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:02 pm Post subject: Re: Ulitimate midi keyboard |
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| Nate Dort wrote: | | I was in a similar boat last year, and I picked up an Akai MPK61 after reading a bunch of reviews and deciding how much I wanted to spend. It's been a good addition to the studio. |
Those Akai's look really nice. Pretty much what I am looking for.
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Brett Siler
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:08 pm Post subject: Re: Ulitimate midi keyboard |
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| Gregg Juke wrote: | If you can drum from the keyboard, I nominate the Roland Juno Gi, the newest andnext step-up from my beloved Juno G.
I can let you hear some sound samples sometime if you like, but the engine is killer-- really nice sounds with 16 tracks of on-board MIDI sequencing.
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My good friend wrote an whole album of IDM kinda stuff using just the onboard MIDI sequencing and it is really good. There are a lot of great sounds on that keyboard and you can get real in depth with the sequencing (he took it about as far as you can I'm betting). You can here what he did here:
http://store.dyspepsidisc.com/album/super-sleuth
The only thing is recently his keyboard started falling apart. Knobs stopped
work and most frustrating of all the screen doesn't work. Something to look out for.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:41 am Post subject: Re: Ulitimate midi keyboard |
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This should be released soon, and would seem to be what you're after:
http://www.nektartech.com/Panorama |
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