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Now if this controller is just for drum programming, then i'd suggest just picking up your cheapest used mpk25 available as you would never need more than 2 octaves at a time for drums.
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At the end of the day, just as you would have to teach yourself to play drums on keys, you would also have to teach yourself to play drums on pads. however, most of the midi controllers on the market nowadays have drum pads included( axiom, mpk, launchpad, graphite, oxygen, panorama, etc.) so my advice is to just go for the best keyboard in your price range without ignoring one based on whether or not it has drum pads. for someone with no experience with them, they will feel just as foreign to use as keys for drum programming. I personally think that unless you came up during the MPC era, have experience with an mpc, or idolize/ emulate mpc era music, pads are not necessarily essential. I would greatly appreciate any advice from more experienced recorders and producers. I was thinking of erring on the side of caution with the Axiom 61 v2 and buying second-hand, but I wonder if that's trying to chisel a pebble. (All of these I could buy used, of course). Down the middle are the M-Audio Keystation 61/Oxygen 49 (100 each) and most expensive the Axiom 49/61 (150 each). On the cheap side there is the Korg MicroKey 37 (£65). I've done some research and got a selection, but I've no real idea of where price-to-value starts to taper off. More importantly, if I'm going to compromise with <88 keys, should I just go with 49 or is that extra octave so valuable? I am very open to suggestion as to when/where I would use this, please advise.ģ7, or more keys? : As a guitarist and bassist I'm not sure that I have the headspace to take on piano-playing in addition to music production, but I have heard that it's pretty important to have those extra octaves for rock/soul/gospel/jazz. I can't think of a reason why I would need faders or pads, and buying without significantly reduces the price. Keyboard only, or with pads? : I am mainly planning to use EZDrummer to generate my drum tracks, and I have seen many people use keys rather than pads to generate drum-tracks on the fly. While messing around with Reaper I have made a few EDM tracks, but it's my primary genre by any means.Īfter some research it seems there are two choices to make, and I would appreciate some assistance: I am primarily interested in soul, alt-rock, prog, thrash with my physical instruments, and I'm pretty well versed in music theory and familiar with piano playing. Writing MIDI tracks on screen is pretty time consuming though, so I'm looking for a controller. So far I'm having a blast learning all the techniques, and I've realised that I can take advantage of MIDI. A few days ago I decided to embrace the fact I sit a computer all the while, and I am learning to use a DAW instead. Up until now I've been recording entirely with a physical 8-track, drum machine and guitars.