Yeah, usually that genre stays within the 5 adjacent keys, so you still have 20 redundant keys!

 

I would skip the Akai. Their budget controllers have gotten some pretty terrible reviews about the build quality. Arturia are usually pretty durable. The others, are probably all pretty close. Most are probably all made at the same factory in China anyway. Based on personal experience, I would get the M-Audio. They have been making controllers for decades, and you will frequently see people with them 10+ years old and still working close to perfect.

Any of them will work for data entry. If you actually want to play it like a real keyboard or synth; I'd skip most of the ones mentioned in the first few posts.

 

That sounds awesome, I may need to just take a troip to a music store and see what I do and don't like personally. Aesteticaly I love the Aurtia sleek, clean and well designed.

Oh wow a plethera of goodies comes with it too, thats just a huge bonus.

Ah that sounds cool, how do thety even connect? Is it USB connection or fire wire or something else? I also have to get a controller.

 

Ah I see, sorry I wasn't trying to be offenseive you were making a joke.

Very true indeed, that sounds like an idea. I could order 2 models I like and send the one back that I did not prefer.

Oh wow thats pretty cool I didn't even know those existed. So essentially you could have 88 keys just stacked upon one another. I may have to go that modifcation option with the rollabe shelving as well.

 

I'd have more space but I'm lazy lol, I have my old tower computer from 20 years ago set up under the desk still and the 32 inch monitor on the main desk top. I'm currently using the roll out drawer for the keyboard to rest my laptop on. I also have a basket full of clothes stacked 3 feet high that I could sell that I haven't wanted to tackle lol. So essentially I may be able do a 49 key once I'm able to get all that shit squared away I just have nowhere to put the shit.

Would you reccomend the Nektar LX49 over the Akai Pro MPK249 and if so why? Ideally I've been looking to purchase the Akai Pro MPK249 for years I just never had the time to invest into music production and I figured if I got it I'd never be able to use it.

That foldable stand option sounds ideal I could store it in my closet when I'm not using it. Honestly like I said the desktop is plenty big enough I just have a mess to tackle I haven't been looking forward to at all

 

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I actually agree with this, each users experience is different. I've seen products on amazon people say are shit and they fit my needs and worked great for me.

 

Thanks, thats my thing too. The build quality, the Arturuia looks solid for sure.

 

Can you blame me? LOL I have a stack of clothes like 15 pairs of jeans, god knows how many shirts probably an easy 5k worth of clothes just piled there that I can't wear. All brand new and never worn they just didn't fit, and I held on to them too long to be able to send back because I used work a lot up until the accident I had where I fell on my wrist, which put me out of work. The others are basket full like 3 foot high of old clothes I grew out of because I gained weight sitting around not being able to do much over the past neary 2 years.

 

If you want to save space, while it doesn't have full sized keys, the Keystep 37 is great. I love mine. Takes up very little room both width wise and depth. I had an LX25+ before. It was a good, but I switched to the Keystep 37 because I wanted at least another octave, and I have zero regrets.

I found I don't really use the sequencer/arp on it, so that's a bit wasted on me, but my desk would feel so cluttered if I had something larger.

Pardon the wire mess.. I'm getting there.. :P

 

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