Alesis QX25 | 25-Key Advanced USB/MIDI keyboard Controller

Solid full feature midi keyboard at a great price This is a great full feature midi keyboard controller. It is programmable directly on the device without using any editor software. In fact, no editor software is available. The Quickstart Guide which comes in booklet form(a PDF download is also available on alesis.com) is pretty good at explaining how to use all the features. While I say “pretty good” I mean in comparison to the industry standard, which is not all that great. No matter how you slice it, it takes a lot of work to learn all…

My Alesis QS6 died, and I needed a MIDI controller, so here we are.I do wish I had bought the 49-key model with a couple more octaves; for my particular workflow it is constraining to work within two octaves, and while you can shift octaves, if a pattern overlaps, that becomes annoying and unworkable, so I heartily recommend springing for the 49. I even work out and record left and right-hand parts separately, but even then more octaves would be helpful. If I had it to do over…