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I am surprised with how well I am taking to playing on the keyboard. I thought it would be a steeper uphill struggle to even play anything. <3

Getting this MIDI keyboard was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

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This just reminds me of back when I was in my late teens, how I wanted to get a keyboard for making music with and to learn an instrument, and I was flat out shut down and yelled at by my late mother for even asking.

Being able to just practice and play on the keyboard means a lot to me than I thought it would. ;w;

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@FreyaManibrandr I'm glad you're finally getting to fulfill that (late-) childhood dream, then <3

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@Felthry Thank you! I also got my hands on an electric bass a few months ago, but while I love it, I can't practice that as much as I do the keyboard, due to fret hand pain, hopefully that will change.

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@FreyaManibrandr We got a keyboard ourselves several months ago and have had a lot less success with it... I feel like we're better with string instruments, keyboards feel too unintuitive.

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@FreyaManibrandr What kind of keyboard did you get? Ours is the cheapest one we could find that actually had velocity detection, a casio ctk-3500

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@Felthry Arturia Keylab Essentials 49, I figured I'd get something that will last a while.

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@FreyaManibrandr ooh, that one's just a midi controller? Looks like it would have been a good option for us to get though, that's way cheaper than ours was

we didn't think of just getting a midi controller, we went for a self-contained instrument (though this also can be used as a midi controller)

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@Felthry Yeah, considering that I have a massive collection of soft synths, and VSTis, I don't feel like I have a real need for a synth keyboard.

The ones I would have wanted would be way out of my budget anyways.

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@Felthry I mean, good luck finding a Roland Jupiter-8 at an affordable price.

The Roland XP-80 is more affordable but still very pricey.

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@FreyaManibrandr yeah we don't know a ton about this stuff but we know roland is expensive (and high quality, yeah, but expensive)

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@Felthry I do happen to own a Roland SD-50 and the Roland SCVA VSTi, the SD-50 was not cheap, but it's so worth every penny.

The SCVA is a nice emulation of the Roland SC-8820 so that makes me happy.

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