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CME UF5 keyboard discussion
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| blacknoizybox |
What do you think about this piece of gear? The price is terribly delicious and the features look really nice. Plus most reviews are positive.
CME UF SERIES OFFICIAL WEBPAGE
CME UF5 USB is the most cost effective omnipotent master keyboard available
- The world's first duraluminum appearance MIDI master keyboard with pro synth concept
- The world's first capability for digital audio firewire expansion
- The world's first MIDI master keyboard with breath control
- The world's first full range series MIDI master keyboard with aftertouch,include 49 to 88 keys
- Superior classic metallic panel
Now, most of manufactures utilize the plastic material to make the body section to save the cost, but it also reduce durability, and makes the product lack of professional elegant quality. However UF all-in-one master keyboard insists in metallic body with cool pure black, at the first moment you touch UF, you will fall in love with it.
- Powerful and plenty of controllers
UF keyboard provides 8 knobs, 9 sliders, pitchbend wheel and modulation wheel, and this configuration is almost not available in other Japanese or American product. With UF serise, you can easily control your music as you wish in realtime. And the control buttons such as REC, PLAY, REW, can remotely control your sequencer software in your computer directly, to make your project easy.
CME UF5 USB Specifications
CME UF5 USB - 49 Key (C1-C5) Semi-Weighted Synth-Action Keyboard
- Velocity Sensitive - with four preset velocity curves
- Aftertouch Sensitive - with dedicated on/off button
- Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels
- 8 Assignable Knobs - preset functions for Filter Cutoff / Resonance / Attack / Release / Pan / Reverb / Chorus / Tempo
- 9 Assignable Faders - preset to control volume on MIDI channels 1-16 and master volume
- Drawbar Organ Button - instantly switches faders to correct MIDI controller numbers for controlling Native Instruments B4 etc.
- Transpose Function - up/down one octave in semitones
- Octave Shift - up/down three octaves
- Keyboard Split
- Dual Function
Chunky Transport Controls:
- Start
- Stop
- Record
- Rewind
- Fast Forward
- Return to Zero
- Breath Controller Input - assignable
- Volume Pedal Input - assignable
- Sustain Pedal Input - auto-sensing polarity on power-up
- LED Data Display - 8 segment, 3 digit
- 1 MIDI Out Port
- 1 USB Port - provides MIDI connection to and from a computer. Power can be supplied via USB
- DC Input Socket - for use with included AC adapter when not powered via USB or when breath controller input and aftertouch functions are required
- Win2000/XP and Mac OS X compatible
- Optional UF400e FireWire Audio Expansion Board
Dimensions (W x D x H):
- CME UF5: 859 x 348 x 113 mm
Weight:
- CME UF5: 8.2 Kg
Included In The Box:
1 x UF Series MIDI Master Keyboard
1 x AC Adapter
1 x USB Cable
1 x User's Manual
1 x CD-ROM containing PC/Macintosh device drivers
CME UF5 USB Specifications
Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 with USB port
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MAC OS X 10.2 with USB port |
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| echosystm |
theyre great! get ready to never be able to use your desk again though. :p
we just sold our 116 year old piano, i'm trying to convince mum and dad to buy the hammer action version of that keyboard haha. :D |
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| T-Soma |
They look pretty decent but those things seem massive!
8kg seems heaps for 49keys. |
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| thoughtlessjex |
| It's a beast, but I'm very pleased with the one that I got. With floops, it'll stop sending info if you don't use it long enough, and you'll have to reset it by turning off the connection, unpluging it and pluging it back in, then turning the connection back on. Other than that, it's nice. |
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| blacknoizybox |
| but the ing price!! its unbelievably cheap - only 230 USD in Ukraine (crappy M-Audio Oxygen 49 costs the same) |
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| echosystm |
I just looked at their forum, as I was planning to buy a UF7. The drivers are an absolute mess and have not been updated because a new line of controllers are comming out - UFxO. The new line will be class compliant (uses Windows/Mac drivers). In order to update your UFx and run it on Vista, you will need to replace the entire motherboard inside the keyboard.
So yeah... that. |
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| Eric J |
| Damn that thing is HUGE! |
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| blacknoizybox |
| quote: | Originally posted by echosystm
I just looked at their forum, as I was planning to buy a UF7. The drivers are an absolute mess and have not been updated because a new line of controllers are comming out - UFxO. The new line will be class compliant (uses Windows/Mac drivers). In order to update your UFx and run it on Vista, you will need to replace the entire motherboard inside the keyboard.
So yeah... that. |
what forum..?
and i not running vista ffs :o |
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| echosystm |
| quote: | Originally posted by blacknoizybox
and i not running vista ffs :o |
you will at some stage ;)
anyway, there are a lot of performance issues like thoughtlessjex is experiencing and stuck notes. if you run it straight to midi in, it should be fine though, you just lose transport controls etc. Personally, I wold just take an M-Audio Keystation 61es. Reliability is everything. |
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| Limit |
| and did anyone mention its really ugly?? it looks like a 1975 Casio. I can almost hear the Happy birthday preset playing. |
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| Tarpex |
Had one for 2 days, then returned it back to the store...
It doesn't look that good in real, the aluminium outer casing is awesome, but the faders look so damn plastic, they're waaaay to big, in ugly black-grey, and they don't give an impression to last...
The keys aren't something to brag about either. Though they should be semi-weighted, they give no impression of any weighting...
The drivers are a mess, couldn't find a stable version that would comply with my system at all... Notes got stuck, faders were resetting randomly, and it jumped an octave up/down sometimes too...
It has some candy though; it can be programmed damn well, so it is a possible candidate for live acts, where you can save yourself a lot of time with this baby, but the general impression, lack of good drivers, non-impressive, plastic, toyish touch to the thing didn't make my cup of tea. Not to mention the size of the thing, it's completely immobile...
Oh, and the transport buttons are something a baby could play with, big, ugly and feel that they'll fall out on the first chance. Generally no button is stuck in place properly, everyting is shambolic in fabrication quality-wise.
The low price isn't deceiving :P
Got the oxygen 49, it rocks. Keys are one of the best i've seen on midi keyboards, and definitely the best in its price range. It wouldn't hurt if it had an extra button or two, but in terms of quality it takes a nice piss on cme and feels good about it :disbelief |
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| ralpheeee |
I'd also like one of these controlers, but the driver issue put me off as well.
I'd recomend edirol pcr m50 or |
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