Midi Keyboards And The Men Who Play Them..., Can midi sequencers replace them? Options

[Ionas]

I have thought at some length about buying a midi keyboard, and even asked around here about which to buy, but as I was trying out Intuem the other day, I began to wonder if a midi sequencer wouldn't be enough.

What reasons are there for using midi keyboards (other than the fact that registering Intuem costs almost as much as a keyboard itself)? Is it just force of habit, or are there things I can never produce with just a sequencer?

[pORG]

hi!

i also think that a midi keyboard has got enough pros for its price.
as others allready said.
it is really much faster, if you just want to sort of "jam". if you worry arround with midi note tools you sit hours and hours, and with your MIDIinput you simply start.
i also use an Evolution keyboard, the MK261.
i am also not a keyboarder, i am a drummer, but the keyboard plus clever midi-live-manipulation tools (such as arp, chord,...) allow to create your ideas.

i use another simply analogy:

of course you could draw an image like this
opening a text-based window and making commands

pixel 33/56 y
pixel 56/87 y
pixel 40/85 y
pixel 50/01 n
....

which finally may give you a simple picture after hours of editing, but you could also simply draw it with a mouse, or even better a grafic-tablett (that s also suchalike conflict of which is the most efficient interface...)

you got me? you got me!

i ve allways been an opponent of grid-based (strictly quantized) music, where you set a dot in a step-seq, and i wanted to do my drum-things with my midi-drumkit and a soft-sampler.
and i have to say, that works pretty well with reason (it has got a low latency, in logic's EXS it s delayed a bit more). but i am even a bit unsatisfied with my electronic drumkit (an alesis D4 with drum pads) because it s MIDIoutput is not that fine. i found out that it just sends out 1/16-notes, no smaller ones, and the velocity is not that exact, but okay.

i think if MIDI-instruments get finer and finer, and thus soft-synths/samplers, natural playing is more and more realistic, and that s the big pro: it is so flexible!

stefan nowak
vienna