Hybrid Keyboard - Creative Prodikeys PC-MIDI

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Published on June 11, 2019 2:58:54 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBPYblt9ghk

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Have you ever wanted a keyboard built into your keyboard? It turned out you could as far back as 1998!

This is a quick look at a really cool keyboard I picked up recently 2005 Creative Prodikeys PC-MIDI. There are three versions but this is the only USB one. None of these keyboards have a proper MIDI port on them. MIDI is sent over the same cable as the alpha keyboard. Which means for the PS/2 versions you'll definitely need the drivers to work. There is a chance the USB one will show up as a standard USB MIDI device in Windows or Mac. I can't say for sure though as I only tried Linux.

One thing I forgot to mention in the video is that the piano keys are just little bit stiffer than I would like making it just a tad fatiguing to play.

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