G3ronimo
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 Posted: Mon Jul 10 2006 15:32
The advantage of a MIDI keyboard |
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I was planning to buy meself a MIDI keyboard, but what is the real advantage over a normal computer keyboard?
and what do you recommend buying? |
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Sunbuster
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Location: Finland
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Posted: Mon Jul 10 2006 18:31
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First thing's that come to mind are touch sensitivity and jamming more freely:
If you use a computer keyboard for recording notes are either on or off, meaning full volume or no volume. With a touch sensitive midi-keyboard you can have MadTracker record how hard you are hitting the keys and automatically translate that to a volume level. So hitting a key softly would translate into 2F being put in the volume column in the pattern, hittin the key hard would perhaps give something like 6E. This gives a more natural sound, since you literally get the human touch added to the song (without having to manually change volumes for each played note).
On some computer keyboards there are limits on which keys you can press simultaneously (why I don't know). Playing certain chords while just trying out things (not having put anything in the pattern yet) might not be possible on these keyboards. With a midi-keyboard there are none of these limits, you should be able to play using all ten fingers and even more without problems.
EDIT: about what to buy. Unless you plan on using sounds from a midi-keyboard also, I'd suggest getting a simple midi-control keyboard, which you can then use to play VSTi's (and MT instruments/samples). I'm currently using a simple Terratec Midi Master Pro and it works just fine for me. There are keyboards that have programmable control knobs etc. which I guess you could program to control VSTi parameters on the fly. How well that works in MT I don't know though... |
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