You sound like a perfect candidate for the Akai LPK25. $43 and change at Musicians Friend. If you have a Guitar Center in town they should match that price if you show them the site:
<http://www.musiciansfriend.com/keyboards-midi/akai-professional-lpk25-laptop-performance-keyboard?src=3WWRWXGP> Raymond Horton Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC Composer, Arranger VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Phil Buglass <bloke...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I have one of those cheapo roll-up > keyboards. I've had it for quite a while, but > never tried it out. It's a bit too long, and > droops off my desk, for one thing. I have been > thinking of getting a small keyboard for > inputting to Finale. I don't play piano, but I > can play one line at a time. Anyway, before > spending any more money, I decided to try out the rubber one. > It works, or at least it plays by itself. Finale > refuses to recognise it, though. Windows > recognises it as a generic usb midi controller, > but for some reason the signal isn't being taken by Finale. > > One thing is, the usb/midi cable I have has a > fork with in and out midi connectors on it. The > keyboard only has a single midi port. If I plug > one end of the Y in, the led on the doodad > flashes, but it flashes as input. I assume that > it is talking about input into the keyboard, but > I could be wrong. It has happened once or twice > before! If I plug the other end in, I don't get > either light flashing. In both cases, it is > playing the notes itself, but the program isn't interested. > > Like I said, I don't really care if this one > works or not, but I don't want to spend money on > a better one, if I can't get it to work. > > In the audio setup dialogue, I have input set to > directsound - if I use ASIO, I don't get any > output from the program at all. For mike source, > I have it set to primary sound capture driver - > the only option. When I come back into it, this > field has usually set itself to blank. > > Is there some esoteric setting somewhere that I > am missing? The user guide is not a lot of help on this subject. > I tried a midi controller some years back, and > returned it because my cakewalk would not > recognise it. Oh, and it also had about 2 seconds of latency! > > Any advice welcome... > > Phil. > > > > “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. > Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” Groucho Marx > _______________________________________________ > 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
