[ddots-l] Re: Cheaper accessible midi controllers?

You can get an m-audio oxygen 61 (61 key) midi controler for about $140. It's 
got plenty of faders and knobs for editing. It also has both USB and midi 
options to connect it. If you use the midi option, you'll have to buy a power 
adapter separately for it. I had one myself, but never utilized all of its 
functions. I'm not much of a fan of midi controlers and prefer full-blown 
synths instead.


Omar Binno

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Schucker 
  To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:54 AM
  Subject: [ddots-l] Cheaper accessible midi controllers?


  OK, what's the deal with midi controllers?  I mean, seriously.  I have 
  one of those cheap learning keyboards, I think I got it for like $50, it 
  was on sale but still.  It has speakers, plays a bunch of demo songs, 
  its own sounds, typical standard 61 full keys keyboard.  So here's my 
  question.

  Are there any cheaper accessible and decent midi controllers?  I mean, 
  the axiom, which I admit looks pretty nice, is like $200 plus for a 
  25-key model.  OK, my keyboard has no velocity etc. and no mod and 
  pitchbend wheels, etc., but then the midi controllers have no sounds of 
  their own.  And what's the deal with everything being USB?  I have a 
  midi interface, I don't really need the USB capability.  Is there 
  anything that's cheaper and just hooks up to the midi interface I've 
  already got?  I don't understand the crazy prices in midi controllers.  
  I mean, hell, I could probably get a vaguely decent mid-level keyboard 
  with wheels and sensitivity and such with midi capability for the price 
  of most midi controllers, why don't I just do that?  Obviously the midi 
  controller has more controls for midi, sliders and such, that another 
  keyboard probably wouldn't have, and really I don't use my keyboard for 
  anything but soft synth control now, hence the interest in a midi 
  controller.  But I'm really wondering, with the prices, if a midi 
  controller is really giving me enough value Vs. a different keyboard, 
  for what I'd pay for one.
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