[macintologist]

Bump, I'm a composer and need a small minimalist USB keyboard. I don't need special buttons, pitch bend etc, I just need octave up and down.

I'm trying to decide between the GarageKey and M-Audio Ekeys 39.

I'm not a piano player but the full size keys seems nice.

[tooki]

Note: above post separated out from http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=246548, where it constituted resurrection of an ancient thread. --tooki

[analogika]

Stay away from the GarageKey.

It is a flimsy, wobbly, useless piece of utter ****. The keyboard is the nastiest I have ever had the dubious honour of hitting a couple of notes on.

Just, no. Ugh.


the M-Audio stuff is good value for money, and very unproblematic. But that thing has mini-keys, meaning that if you're going to be learning a bit of keyboard, whatever you're learning in the way of technique is going to be useless.

Save up and get yourself a keystation 49e - or any other keyboard of theirs with full-size keys instead.