The wheels, knobs and faders are much better than anything MAudio, Novation, etc are putting out. The action is a bit fast and stiff so it takes some getting used to and working with velocity offsets/transforms for some orchestration uses, but it's consistent and in general feels better and more reliable than most others on the market.
I have a Yamaha KX88 and though it isn't my preference for action or controller capabilities in general, it responds better than most anything out today in the dedicated controller market, and mine is going on 20 years old now.įor an unweighted smaller (49 keys) controller, the Akai MPK49 is great. I thought it would improve, but it's gotten worse. Personally, I'm highly disappointed with the decline in quality of controllers in the last 10 years.
#Kurzweil pc2x used full
At one time the Kurzweil keyboards were pretty good for weighted and unweighted keys (PC88 has been mentioned, and it's a good choice), but I haven't had a chance to try the newer PC series.įor weighted keys, for my taste (and given the compromise over a real piano) the Yamaha S90 feels better than most 88 key models I've seen, but again, you are buying a full synth/piano. The best feeling and most playable unweighted keyboard on the market at the moment is the Korg M3-61/73, but being a $2200 full synth workstation (61 key version), it's pricey for a controller. Sorry, I don't know if the UF80 is any better, but I have my doubts. I haven't tried the unweighted CME's, but if the UF8 is any indication, I would pass there as well. The Axiom is the closest I've found to acceptible in the MAudio line. Personally I would stay away from the CMEs or MAudio keyboards. It was difficult to play with any sense of phrasing. I found the review model I got to be inconsistent - some notes would stick at the top of the key bed some were slower than others offsets between notes were inconsistent, etc. Yes, it's action is pretty poor (I think I was a bit more euphemistic in the review). I guess you didn't read my review of it then (or I wasn't blunt enough). Without bashing too much, but the UF6 was one of the biggest misspurchases I have ever doneĪgain, I dunno about the new generations, but all these issues made me to ignore CME completely. They keys are really balanced and it is a difference of day and night to play on that thing compared to the UF6. Besides all that it is rock stable and massive. I got 8 drumpads, lots of knobs (no faders really but that's also fine for me) and hellovalot of programming options. I recently got the Axiom 25 of M-Audio (since this is enough for me to have 25 keys) and I am more than pleased. Especially since I never realize it that it was broken. I personally don't care about a broken LED, but it was really awkward when I sold it. The best thing was, I sold the keyboard on ebay and the buyer was really really exploring everything what you can examine and found out that one LED wasn't working on this knob LED ring. Also I don't really know what the big difference between the UF6/UF60 is.
They look pretty good and I had a quick test at my local music store. Together with the terrible support (sometimes noone replied on the CME forum for about weeks) I think CME suck0r00rz bigtime. Plastic is fine for me, but the UF6 was a bit too plastic for me. The keys itseld are really crappy, especially the attack of the black keys totally differs from the white ones. You have to write it down on paper to know which MIDI command you assigned to which controller. You don't even see what you assigned to which fader. Maybe I am the only one, but I had problems programming MIDI commands to certain knobs.
#Kurzweil pc2x used driver
I don't even get into the driver updates. Well, to be honest, not only the keyboard but the support too. I had a CME UF6 for quite a while and I kinda liked it, but after a while there was so much stuff I discovered and now I honestly it sucks big time.
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