Master Keyboards

Category Keyboards

Master Keyboards

Brand

• Akai (6)
• Alesis (7)
• Kawai (1)
• Korg (3)
• Line 6 (3)
• Neusonik (1)
• Novation (9)
• Roland (6)
• Samson (1)
• Studiologic (7)

Keys

• 25 keys (11)

• 32 keys (1)

• 37 keys (3)

• 49 keys (12)

• 61 keys (9)

• 76 keys (1)

• 88 (7)

USB?

• No (1)

• Yes (38)

Audio interface?

• No (21)

• Yes (1)

Keyboard type

• Hammer action, velocity sensitive with aftertouch (3)

• Velocity sensitive (5)

• Velocity sensitive, light-weighted (11)

• Velocity sensitive, light-weighted with aftertouch (11)

Number of Faders

• 1 (3)

• 8 (5)

• 8 (touch sensitive) (4)

• 9 (9)

Number of Pads

• 12 (4)

• 16 (4)

• 4 (3)

• 8 (8)

• 8 (touch sensitive) (3)

The classical master keyboards have 88 keys, no sound of their own generation, but several MIDI inputs and outputs have. A master keyboard can be programmed extensively, especially to other sound modules on stage, often rack synthesizers, and can be controlled individually as combined. To the profession can be divided into various zones of the keyboard (splitting), which then send to each other MIDI channels or outputs of appealing to other parties. Due to the production of computer-based music has developed another type of master keyboards, the USB keyboard. It primarily controls virtual sound modules, but can provide as a rule, nor a traditional MIDI equipment. Original master keyboard virtues such as keyboard-splitting in these models play a minor role. The more important is providing them with elements of different persuasions controller.