What is MIDI Keyboard A MIDI-Keyboard is piano style electronic keyboard, it consists of buttons, wheels, and sliders for sending commands over USB or MIDI-5 Pin cable to other devices connected and operating on the same MIDI Protocol. Because the basic MIDI keyboard doesn’t come with a sound engine so it does not support sound itself. The receiving device could be:- a computer running a DAW or a standalone VST/AU instrument. a sound module. a digital or analog hardware instrument with MIDI capability, such as a drum machine. Although many digital and analog keyboard in the categories mentioned above of Digital Piano, Stage Piano or Synthesizer can be used as MIDI controller if they have a MIDI capability, as a dedicated MIDI keyboard they don’t offer the same level of software integration and some MIDI mappable controls. MIDI Keyboards are often used by those who work with DAW’s and software instruments working in recording studios or concert stages.
Akai Fire One of the favorite Daw of producers like Kshmr, Lost Stories, Zaeden etc. will be made it finally has a piece of hardware to call its own. In 2002, Ableton got its first hardware. And Fl Studio, despite its popularity, has had to make with generic MIDI controllers until now. But now, The AKAI Professional Fire changes all of that. The Akai Fire is a 4x16 grid of pads looks precisely like the Fl Studios Step Sequencer with a little black notch. They are not just ordinary On or Off buttons, as they’re velocity sensitive you can use them for finger drumming and play keyboard instrument in “note” mode. That wouldn’t be exciting if all you could do was control the Akai Fire. There are also four Knots that can change anything from panning and volume to oscillator tuning or filter sweeps. You can even browse samples from a small OLED screen without touching a mouse or keyboard. Soloing Channels, muting, record and playback all the controls are provided in i