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Producing w/out a midi keyboard
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| lucas ss |
So the thing is, I'm overseas and I'm waiting for my work visa to process.....which may take over a month. I have a LOT of spare time and I don't have enough money to go out and do things that cost money, so I would like to hit production hard if I can. I'm used to producing with a midi keyboard, but I had to sell it awhile ago. I've been a long time Cubase user, but I find producing in Cubase w/out a midi keyboard very painful and limited.
What would be a good sequencer to use in this situation? I will not use Reason :) |
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| owien |
| just use fruity loops it has the best piano roll out there |
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| david.michael |
| I produced in FL without a MIDI keyboard for years. |
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| palm |
| dont need no midikeyboard. just more cables and that wont work. i have one though planned for using in ableton as a liveact but yeah that sucks too. |
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| justjabbin |
| quote: | Originally posted by lucas ss
So the thing is, I'm overseas and I'm waiting for my work visa to process.....which may take over a month. I have a LOT of spare time and I don't have enough money to go out and do things that cost money, so I would like to hit production hard if I can. I'm used to producing with a midi keyboard, but I had to sell it awhile ago. I've been a long time Cubase user, but I find producing in Cubase w/out a midi keyboard very painful and limited.
What would be a good sequencer to use in this situation? I will not use Reason :) |
you cant afford a midi keyboard for $100 or less but you can afford a new DAW for several hundred $ ????
Eye Matey I think I be smellin a pirate |
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| johncannons1 |
| y not reason? |
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| Zild |
| One of my mentors never uses a controller. And he isn't a pirate he just doesn't feel the need. |
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| vikernes |
I also don't have a midi keyboard. I should buy one soon, simply for ease of use and to be able to use faders, knobs etc...
Anyway, I've been using this for a couple of years now:
http://www.vanilin.org/software/midikb.html
You'll need a MIDI loopback driver (MIDI Yoke is on that site works well enough) and then just set up the inputs to In: From MIDI Yoke 1 in Cubase and Out: From MIDI Yoke 1 in the settings for that app I gave you.
Then you can use CTRL+SHIFT+E to switch between on and off keyboard. Works like a charm.
Also, you can customize the layout in the settings.ini file. |
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| lucas ss |
nonono, I want to use the midi keyboard to play piano as well, so I need the top-of-the-line, fully weighted key, aftertouch, cost-much-more-money-than-a-DAW midi keyboard.
they be stormy seas ye be sailin' inte :thepirate |
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| aLviNx80 |
| the m-audio axioms have semi-weighted keys with after touch. I had an axiom 61 for about two years and imo the keys feel very nice. |
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| Zombie0729 |
| wow i guess i'm more hands on then most of you... some of my best ideas have come about simply jamming, stuff i would have never come up with by penciling |
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| sixofour.604 |
| Not many people still manually play everything they produce, don't believe everything salesmen tell you. I have 3 midi keyboards, no song Ive ever made had me playing a keybord in it. Mostly do to the impossibility of the melodying to be played by a person [arppeggios], they are great for practicing, jamming, or discovering that bit of inspiration for a song, but for actual utility during production? Meh, it slows me down. this is one of the reasons I went back to FL from cubase, the piano roll is horrible in cubase. |
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