When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's a strange quirk of the computer music hardware market that when a 'generic' MIDI controller ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. First things first: not all keyboards are MIDI ...

Now that we are well in to 2017, we thought it was a good time to re-assess the MIDI keyboard situation for Mac users. We have some new contenders on the block that have pushed some old favorites to ...

Though MIDI controllers are generally used for digital music making, the automat from dadamachines offers laptop or smartphone tunesmiths the opportunity to create something distinctly analog. A ...

Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software applications put the power of the recording and editing studio right in front of you on a computer screen. Tweaking the hundreds and hundreds of settings and ...

MIDI has been around for longer than most of the readers of Hackaday, and you can get off my lawn. In spite of this, MIDI is still commonly used in nearly every single aspect of musical performance, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For hardware synth and drum machine enthusiasts, there are two controllers that stand above most of the competition: Arturia's KeyStep and ...

I used to play piano a while back, and been thinking of getting back into it. Instead of buying a real piano, or a synth, I've been thinking of getting a MIDI controller keyboard, and then using ...

Since it first caught the world's attention at NAMM '09, Native Instruments' Maschine has made quite a stir in the world of electronic music production and performance. A modern re-imagining of Akai's ...