The Keyboard as your instrument!The keyboard is an very popular musical instrument, especially among youg people and an ideal instrument for songwriting. It's an electronic instrument designed to produce electronically generated sounds, using techniques such as additive, subtract, physical modeling synthesis, or phase distortion. It create sounds through direct manipulation of electrical voltages( as in analog synthesizers), or in combination of both methods. To handle this instrument you need to be skilled, musicality, intelligence, just like with every other instrument. In fact, it's an advantage if you're acomputer mindet type of person, if you want to use the fully capacity of the instrument(connected to your PC).
THe history of the Keyboard/syntheziser
The inventor of the synthesizer was Robert A Moog and this is still a brand in the world of music instruments. Of course , the first synthesisers where total different from the modern keyboards we know now. The size of a modern keyboard, for instants, is a lot smaller then it was in the sixties, or seventies.Anyway, the common sizes of this instrument is depending of the number of keys. #-61-keys:Yamha, Korg, Roland, Alesis.. #-76-keys:Roland, Yamaha, Clavia, Korg.. #- 88 keys : Kursweil, Yamaha, Korg, Alesis, Roland. How more keys on your keyboard, how clother to the real piano, and how more gou have to pay for it, of course.
The most known brants of synthezisers#-Yamaha: Here you'll find not only musical instruments, but also professional audio products, home audio, Video products, recording equipment..www.Yamaha.com
www.korg.com
#- Clavia: Manufacturer of keyboards. Their products are, the Nord Stage, Nord Lead2X, Nordlead 3, Nord Modular. www.clavia.com
www.Alesis.com
THe MIDI- keyboard!This is a piano-style digital instrument deviceused for sending MIDI signals or commands to other devices connected to the same interface as the keyboard.MIDI is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface ( protocol)The basic MIDI-keyboard does not produce sound.Instead, MIDI information is sent to an electronic module capable of reproducing an array of digital sounds or samples that resemble traditional analog musical instruments. These sample are also refered to as voices. #-Edirol (PCM 30/50/80 )is such and instrument and Edirol is a company that manufacture all kind of electronic devices from instruments to recording equipment. www.edirol.com To end with.Thaks for dropping-in.It wasn't a long page but I hope you have learned something anyway. If you want to know more instruments( or anything else), than stay with us and move on to of the other pages! This site is meant for helping beginning songwriters, artist and musicians to find whatever you're looking for. The Webmaster
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