A MIDI controller keyboard never ceases to amaze me. I have two now. One is for home and the other is for on the go. I've got an M-Audio Pro 88 Keystation, that is the big sucker with weighted keys. It reminds me of a real piano at times and when I'm playing my keyboard with a baby grand synth the only difference is that my plastic keys aren't made from elephant tusk. Since my 88 key keyboard is too heavy to port around with me, I have a mini-me MIDI controller keyboard that weighs less than a tenth as much. This I can easily lug around along with my laptop anywhere. I've taken it on the plane, train and in automobiles.
Making music on the go is often times important because I always hear music in my head and if I can get it down on a track while it is still playing around, it is mine to keep forever unless otherwise copyrighted, in which I would probably never find out unless I received a subpoena. As an artist, I create because I have to. Something inside requires me to exhibit this form of expression. What would I do without my MIDI controller keyboard? I don't know. The world is a better place with MIDI controller keyboards. Before their conception, people with any desire to play a keyboard instrument had to go out and buy them. There are thousands of different keyboard instruments varying in price from cheap toys to professional electric pianos to priceless church organs. Each keyboard instrument has its own unique sound and feel, which were the two sole purposes for buying them.
Since the invention of computers and the amazingly talented software developers who pioneered the concept and application of virtual synths (recreating real instruments in software playable form) a special hardware device called a MIDI controller keyboard was born. The MIDI controller keyboard is assigned a map of the virtual instrument so that when middle C is pressed, the program knows to play middle C for that instrument. So today, when you want to get a new keyboard, you don't have to go out and buy a whole new keyboard, you just have to buy (sometimes virtual synths are free) the virtual instruments to use with your MIDI Controller.
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