Friday, November 4, 2011

Opt for Compact MIDI Keyboards

By Donald Grossy


Whether or not you are considering a compact keyboard that wouldn't confuse your work desk, or a great controller you can carry with your portable, we're sure you're going to totally love the Korg microKEY. The ultimate choice for deciding your PC music application - in production perhaps in performance the Korg microKEY is a smooth, featherweight, USB powered and compatible with your entire computer music program; use it to create your individual compact and customized command center.

What's vital about any type of keyboard is the feel of its keys, plus the responsiveness, velocity-sensitive mini keybed of the microKEY feels amazing. The microKEY includes 37 velocity-sensing mini keys, using the same Natural Touch keybed found on the Korg microKORG XL and microSTATION, giving you enough collection to really play, without making the microKEY heavy. This type of key bed happens to be superbly made with careful attention to the impression and experience. The directions of the black keys and white "waterfall" keys have been altered for uttermost playability, and the key stroke makes it easy to experiment with chords, glissandos, and rapid-fire phrases. The microKEY rightly conveys the workings of your general performance to any application plug in.

What's great concerning the microKEY is that it has a pair of USB type A slots, proficiently turning it into a 2-port USB center, enabling you to daisy chain added USB devices. With a power light demonstrating that you are all set and Core Audio drivers (on Mac) suggest it's all set to go the minute you plug in, while an easy set up on Computer addresses issues of numerous programs seeing the 'Key at the same time.

And full marks for incorporating marvelous firm full-size pitch and mod wheels and a brilliant octave up and back down method. The Octave Shift buttons extend the range of the Korg microKEY by four octaves in both direction - down or up! It sounds a bit like a minimal thing but stepping up and down using the two buttons below the wheels causes them to cycle thru green, orange, red and flashing red to demonstrate exactly how far out of strike you have modified the range. The Key Transpose authorizes you to play in almost any key quickly. Used together, these two features provide access to the whole MIDI note assortment. For incorporating flavorsome expression to your performance, the Korg microKEY is also designed with both a Pitch Bend wheel and a Modulation wheel. Additionally, the microKEY MIDI Keyboard Controller comes including Korg's M1 Le software synthesizer, so you are ready to make music, right from the container!

It is superb how speedily you get accustomed to that smaller key size - Korg's micro series has absolutely given them a headstart when it comes to compact mini controller quality. The action feels reassuringly trusty, being the same board as on the microPiano, Station and Korg XL. It's small, but simultaneously it's undoubtedly 'pro'. It seems that it is going to be the octave restrictions which will cut back the choice for you. But hey, you get a copy of Korg's M1Le plug-in device in the container too - a good sweetener, taking into account the price.




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