HANDS- ON MIDI
Computer-based music production and the MIDI keyboard are a marriage made in heaven. That familiar layout of black and white keys still tops the charts when it comes to entering musical notes and programming tunes into our digital boxes. This popularity comes as no real surprise, considering that the keyboard adopts a layout that musicians have been familiar with for over 700 years. However, technology has now progressed to the point that several viable alternative methods of entering note and performance data are emerging.
With this in mind, the time is surely right to explore a few of the alternatives to the good old ’board, and focus on a few of the more specialist features of some controllers that, as well as featuring a conventional piano-style keyboard layout,
