Question about midi controllers...

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A little confusion here. Why would someone opt for the midi controller as opposed to the keyboard? Is it just the price difference? Otherwise, it seems to me you can do everything on the keyboard that you would on the controller plus a hell of a lot more.
You can do sampling on both right?
Also, would there be any reason to get both of them?
Thanks.
 
gene12586 said:
A little confusion here. Why would someone opt for the midi controller as opposed to the keyboard? Is it just the price difference? Otherwise, it seems to me you can do everything on the keyboard that you would on the controller plus a hell of a lot more.
You can do sampling on both right?
Also, would there be any reason to get both of them?
Thanks.
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The controller is a control surface only in that it has no on board sounds and that should be reflected in the price. It doesnt sample it just controls the software synth or sampler in your computer.

Reason to get both ? Not really. You make your decision in advance based on your requirements.

Reason to get keyboard ?
Playing live, freeing up computer resources ( running many multiple soft synths can be a resource hog if you dont want to freeze/print the tracks).
 
Great, that's the answer I wanted to hear, lol.... So all the controller does is control the sequencer/soft synth/sampler? What about live performance.... how do you play loops and samples live...I was under the impression that if you want to sample, you get the sounds from wherever they are saved on your computer (or make them with soft synth), then send and store them on either the midi controller or the keyboard (or is that just for a keyboard?)
 
gene12586 said:
Great, that's the answer I wanted to hear, lol.... So all the controller does is control the sequencer/soft synth/sampler? What about live performance.... how do you play loops and samples live...I was under the impression that if you want to sample, you get the sounds from wherever they are saved on your computer (or make them with soft synth), then send and store them on either the midi controller or the keyboard (or is that just for a keyboard?)
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Nope. You cant store anything in the keyboard controller but you can store whatever sounds you want in a sampling keyboard. Once again, reflected in the price.

Many live musos trigger their samples and loops stored on their laptop from their keyboard controller. :) There is plenty of sampler software out there.
 
So if I get a Workstation like the Roland Juno G, I can pretty much do everything from the keyboard right...including sampling, saving the sounds on the keyboard and playing them from the keyboard live right?
 
gene12586 said:
So if I get a Workstation like the Roland Juno G, I can pretty much do everything from the keyboard right...including sampling, saving the sounds on the keyboard and playing them from the keyboard live right?
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Yes. http://www.roland.com/products/en/JUNO-G/features.html

It appears that it has maximum of 512mb of expanded memory... Thats as far as I got on the vid.

You should probably pose the question "What is the best workstation with sampler for $ x amount ?" in the keyboard section.
Also, always pays to chuck any product you are thinking about into youtube.
 
Ok, thanks cfox...yeah I've been looking lots of this stuff up on youtube...very helpful indeed!
 
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