[musictlk] Electronic Keyboard Questions

[Richard Holloway]

I had a follow-up thought as well. If any current music keyboards have an App for iPhone or other iDevices that can control sound selections or other settings, perhaps the App might be accessible? 

I’m just trying to explore all options here and trying to figure out where to start…

Thanks!



On Sep 29, 2015, at 12:30 AM, Richard Holloway via musictlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> I’m wondering if there are any keyboards, particularly mid-range to high-end (music) keyboards that have any accessibility through external (typing) keyboards be they USB or Bluetooth.
> 
> My daughter was checking out some current Keyboards— (Synths / Sequencers / DAW’s) and it occurred to me that it would be a fairly simple matter to design keyboards so that you could scroll through sound lists and other features in a menu system, in a way that a FOCUS display, or an Apex, etc., could be plugged in by USB or paired with Bluetooth, but I have never heard of this being offered. Does that solution exist somewhere?
> 
> Barring that option, what current, high-quality electronic keyboards are most accessible (with their own built-in controls). We’re open to various options. If there is some super system she could reach that was more of a soft-synth arrangement using a Mac or PC, we’d explore that, for example. 
> 
> So far, the only thing that seems to be reasonably accessible, as far as a soft-synth, is GarageBand, and while that is fun to play with, the sounds aren’t all that great.
> 
> We also have had some luck with the Yamaha YPG-525 / YPG-625 keyboards as far as access (you can punch sound ID numbers into a keypad so they are pretty easy to access once you know the number of a particular sound) but otherwise, you have to just scroll through hundreds of sounds to hear all of the available choices— rather sloppy and confusing— it makes sounds really hard to come back to. This direct selection is nice, but the YPG sounds are not really what we are looking for at this point.
> 
> What we are after is more in the range of  Roland Fantom FA 06 / FA 08’s sound capabilities. or perhaps a Roland Integra 7 (I understand most of the Famtom FA’s 2000 sounds are a subset of an Integra 7’s 6000+ sound set.) The concern is just how accessible the Fantom sounds (and other features) would be.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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