I use the Oxygen8 when I am using a laptop out of town. Download the latest driver from the website, as the one you have may break in future OS upgrades. I just hit the octave up and down buttons on it, and it doesn't bug me too much.
Sorry, no experience with the Alesis, but it's hard to imagine the limited needs of Finale exceeding any MIDI keyboard. So you're probably good with anything you're comfortable with. Christopher On Sun Sep 25, at SundaySep 25 7:12 PM, Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre wrote: > A few days ago I asked about the M-Audio Keystation Mini 32 and got good > replies. > > I used to be good at skimming manuals for the important stuff, but I lost > some of the necessary control of my eye movements while having cataract > problems. Not whining, only realising that I m less good a reading texts than > I used to be. So I wanted to be sure I could find out about making a keyboard > controller work with Finale before I invested ever so small a sum. > > Hence I dusted off my old controller which appeared to be an Oxygen8. Also > found an old online manual, which scared me, as the driver should be placed > in an OMS folder, which I remember about, but haven’t seen for years. > However I also found a newer driver in form of an installer application. > Which worked with current software and also found out about opening a port > into Finale. Hurrah! > > So why asking again? Even if the 25 keys of the Oxygen8 lead to better > productivity than the alphanumeric keyboard as an entry tool in Speedy, then > I had to realise Chuck being right that 25 keys are insufficient. I found the > alphanumeric keyboard less than intuitive. And so are the octave shifts > necessitated by the instruments not fitting into two octaves from C through > C. So I need more keys. > > Most brass instruments don’t use more than 3 octaves in the bulk of my work, > but it takes 4 octaves to fit just about all brasses into any octave > allocation without changing that allocation all the time. Now the question is > about the best cut of quality, of small demands on space, and of course of > price. I cannot do realtime entries, so sensing key velocities is not a main > consideration. > > I found an Alesis Q49 at a fairly attractive price. Any experiences with that > model? > > Klaus > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
