And although it has a very streamlined design, the A-49 features a full-size, premium keyboard with 49 velocity-sensitive keys. It’s strong yet amazingly lightweight (less than six pounds/2.5 kilograms), making it easy to lift and carry. It’s also a great second keyboard for controlling synthesizers that have onboard SuperNATURAL sounds, such as the JUPITER-80 and JUPITER-50. The A-49 can assign all its controllers automatically for fully utilizing an external SuperNATURAL sound module such as the INTEGRA-7. Add color to your sound and excitement to your performance by waving your hands over the invisible D-BEAM. All of these features add up to a keyboard that even the most discerning pros will appreciate. Other enhancements have been made to reduce the already low mechanical noise and eliminate vertical shake. < Bouncing.The A-49’s keys have a rounded shape for better reaction to the player’s touch and more comfortable glissandi. And for some reason, only as I write this did I work out that I could always introduce a slight delay to the front for mixing purposes and then remove this before bouncing. The only issue is that my front speakers are connected via digital and the back via TRS, so there is the slightest amount of latency between a signal hitting both at the same time. Other than that, I've dug out my old stereo and am using it as my back left and right. So it's still not perfect but once I've fixed that, it will be. If the pad were detected as a joystick then I could just move my finger over the pad without needing to focus in that small amount of screen space and my actions also wouldn't influence the on-screen mouse-pointer as they do now. Whilst I have yet to do this it makes much more sense because my current use involves having to double tap the X/Y plugin screen and keep my finger held on the pad whilst moving - as soon as I remove my finger, the pad is deselected and I have to perform another double tap within that small amount of screen space. APZX also recommended that I find a method to turn my touchpad/mouse into a joystick. My second best solution would be to use a couple of controllers on my mix controller but that's also flawed and slow.Īnyway. But if you're suggesting drawing it in - it really doesn't sound as good and is much slower to work that way. As for automation, that's what I'm talking about. £300 for the 49 key version, which is £100 over the M-Audio, which I certainly can't justify spending on a joystick. Being a Novation product, I know that the quality will be high - probably better than M-Audio's stuff. And whilst I think this new SL MkII looks as ugly as sin, the controls are touch sensitive and that's pretty cool. It was the model before this by Novation that had the joystick, which I was thinking of but simply couldn't justify for such a project. *performs search and finds a controller I hadn't seen before* It's annoying that the one I want (M-Audio Axiom) doesn't have such a feature and the best that I know which does. As I mentioned, buying a keyboard just for that control seems pointless - other than the fact that I can't really afford justifying such expense right now and that I only have room for one MIDI keyboard - I'm having to sell my old MIDI keyboard just so I have room for a new one. Also considering that I'm not sure where my old joysticks might be hiding. So I might have to pick up either a cheap USB one or get a converter. The only issue I might now have is that all of my joysticks are old-school gameport style ones and others are even older than that.
Which looks nice and simple and is W7 compatible. Quite annoying that the M-Audio Axiom doesn't have one because I've been wanting one of those controllers for a little while now and would happily snap one up now that my student finance has *finally come through.Īs a second best, I would look at an X/Y pad but not those Korg Nano things - when I say build quality isn't too important, I do have limits.
Of course, there are expensive keyboards with them built in but I don't really want to buy a whole keyboard just for one control. It's quite a simple mechanism and should be cheap to produce.
I wonder why more companies don't make them. That's more of a work-around as I'd like something compact but it looks like this type of item is rare. I just need something for surround panning. I'm looking for a stand alone MIDI joystick controller.
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