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Posted by rubez on Apr-07-2016 09:12:

ITB no keyboard

i have a keyboard, but getting it to work with a DAW is a headache.

i can get great results on the keyboard, it feels very intuitive, even though i've never played one before this.

so if you were working fully ITB, without a keyboard, how you you get round this? now having to laboriously, in a trial and error type of way, plot in your keystrokes into the DAW?

is there a plug in that has a skin of a keyboard, which helps you with chords? e.g. depresses 3 keys at a time of you.

Posted by SystematicX1 on Apr-07-2016 09:21:

Ableton has a Piano Roll however I do believe most DAW have their own specific piano roll

Posted by rubez on Apr-07-2016 10:16:

my DAW has a piano roll of course. but it is far from intuitive.

i was thinking of something like a plug in, with a visual representation of a keyboard, with a mechanic to compensate for the loss of multiple fingers-on-keys you get with the real thing.

i guess no.

Posted by evo8 on Apr-07-2016 15:32:

what DAW are you using? should be straight forward to get a midi keyboard up and running......

Posted by rubez on Apr-08-2016 08:48:

FL. it was a synth, it could probably be used as a midi keyboard too.

but not much point in using a synth as a midi keyboard when i get a much better sound out of it than with VSTs. setting it up is the major hassle. so i'd rather go fully ITB or OTB.

OTB just means jamming though essentially.

Posted by evo8 on Apr-08-2016 14:28:

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Originally posted by rubez
FL. it was a synth, it could probably be used as a midi keyboard too.

but not much point in using a synth as a midi keyboard when i get a much better sound out of it than with VSTs. setting it up is the major hassle. so i'd rather go fully ITB or OTB.

OTB just means jamming though essentially.

usually more hassle than it seems.

also - you can have your synth set up as midi kb to control your softsynths AND you can also have it set up to just play the keyboard sounds as well - this is not unusual, i had my JD800 set up this way as well

Hybrid is the way to go IMO (some hardware, some software & DAW)

Posted by Looney4Clooney on Apr-23-2016 02:20:

Go get a 50. $ keyboard.

Honestly.

Posted by DJ RANN on Apr-23-2016 19:00:

Truedat.

I think there's over 30 sub $50 keyboards.

Then again, the OP is Scottish so I doubt he'll part with the money

(EDIT: if you're using Logic, just press CAPS to bring up an onscreen keyboard)

Posted by Evolve140 on May-01-2016 18:47:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0ImWG_VMgE

you can see a bit of how I do ITB for piano sounds, it's all about dialing in the velocity