jigfresh
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I'm looking up Midi keyboards as well. Actually the little one you posted by Akai. I'm going to start using Ableton as well, so we can be compatable. Plus I've heard lots of great things about it. I'd like to get one of those midi controllers to make beats and all kinds of other fun stuff. I spent over an hour in Guitar Center today having a blast, acting like a little kid. What fun. I talked to everybody and figured out what I need for recording perfection over here.That's going to be a suh-wheet amp, jig!
I've been researching MIDI keyboards and I'm leaning towards this one if I can get the wife into it.
She's a former classical pianist who was quite good before she went off to college.
She types at like over 100 words a minute with zero errors, so I doubt it would take her long to get her fingers in shape for playing.
I don't know if she'd be into playing our kind of music, but her being able to use the keyboard with her laptop would cinch being allowed to get it.
Since I've been intensifying my re-immersion into music, she's asked a number of times if I was ever going to get another keyboard, and that she'd love to have one around to play.
I really don't want to go smaller than 61 keys.
They have a smaller 25 key version of this one, but I've had keyboards as small as 49keys and it just sucks a$$.
Even the 88key Yamaha I used to have seemed a little cramped, but with the pitch bend wheel and assignable key ranges, you can work around any limitation where the extreme upper or lower registers would be needed (rarely).
Anyways, this one almost has me drooling, and it has a complete setup built into it for running Ableton Live almost exclusively from the Akai.
Gonna get a Egnater Rebel 30 amp, acoustic guitar pickup, an interface to hook to the comp, midi controller/keyboard, mic stand, and Ableton live, oh, and some new strings for both guitars. Plus my wife is getting jealous, so she wants me to buy her a power cord for her keyboard/ elec. piano so she can start playing again as well.'
EDIT: Nice thinking there droman. I'm glad we got an inside look at the breeding reasons. I wouldn't make a good breeder... too much thinking involved, lol.