On Jun 26 17:47 97, Mark Love of 2:258/1.2 wrote:
ML> Im thinking of getting a Midi Keyboard to connect to my pc.
ML> I have seen adverts for Master keyboards that do not have
ML> any sounds but are used to input midi information into a 
ML> sequencer.   If you are writing a tune are you limited to 
ML> the sounds that are built into your soundcard or can you
ML> load in sounds ?
If you are a beginner, I would advise against a master controller, especially 
if you were planning on using a soundcard as the synth source, especially if 
you don't already have a wavtable card.
Buy a cheap gm keyboard, good buys on used keyboards, then either a midi 
adapter for whatever kind of computer... and some software...
Buy the best you can afford, roland, korg, yamaha [although I do not like the 
psr "consumer" series] tend to have good resale, and decent numbers of users 
to support... I lean very heavily towards roland, and they have nice gm 
keyboards with soundcanvas synth sounds... gm is very good as it will enable 
you to play most of the stuff you can find on the net, latter you will 
probably abandon gm to get the sounds that fit with whatever type of music 
you are into, but it is always handy to have something general midi arround 
[gm]
If you already play piano the action may be important in choosing a keyboard, 
if not, it is lesser... I am primarily a guitar player, and you can use a 
midi pickup on a guitar to get sounds in... or you can use the pc keyboard 
and type away...
guess that's enough of a beginning, I suspect others may have something also 
to share...
Regards,
Richard.
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