Keyboards Soon To Be Dead?

DaniH · Post by **DaniH** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:41 pm

I say personal preference really. I have soft synths that sound amazing and hardware that sounds just as great. I love having hardware to reduce some cpu memory issues. That being said you can have great control over your sound with a softsynth than that of a hardware. I'm sure though you can still have the same control over hardware as well. Hardware to me is better if you are playing live p.a.'s. I mainly use my softs for regular late night laptop tracks (when I am laying in bed).

djcactus · Post by **djcactus** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 4:56 pm

I think this is being looked at a little wrong, look at the kronos, it is a computer, though instead of your qwerty keyboard you have the musical one.

I guess you can use a qwerty to play music though id rather have a touch screen or piano keys.

If anything i think both keyboards and computers are becoming more similar then computers are outright making them obsolete. You can buy a midi keyboard and you could get a load of vst's but it wont replace the instant gratification that a keyboard will give, plus you will still probably want a keyboard to play.

Giner · Post by **Giner** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:24 am

^ Agreed. A musician, in the usual sense of the word, will always take a keyboard over a computer. Now, whether the 'usual sense' will continue for ever might be up for debate, but let's just say I don't see any change in the foreseeable, or even the unforeseeable future. Over the past several years the two have become an adjunct to each other in many cases, like integrated technologies in many other fields, but how does a computer satisfy the tactile pleasure of an actual keyboard? In my book, it can't.

seanL · Post by **seanL** » Fri Jan 13, 2012 4:45 am

It's all about knobs, buttons, sliders, wheels, ribbon controllers and of course keys, for me. I love to get lost in an old piece of hardware......jack one piece into another and see what crazy sounds come out....

I'm an (old) hardware whore.

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:37 am

djcactus wrote:I think this is being looked at a little wrong, look at the kronos, it is a computer, though instead of your qwerty keyboard you have the musical one.

I guess you can use a qwerty to play music though id rather have a touch screen or piano keys.

If anything i think both keyboards and computers are becoming more similar then computers are outright making them obsolete. You can buy a midi keyboard and you could get a load of vst's but it wont replace the instant gratification that a keyboard will give, plus you will still probably want a keyboard to play.

I think this is the way to go .. having a reliable system of a computer with VSTs (fixed or not) together with controllers that are 'matching'.