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  • Separate MIDI Keyboards for Note Input and Keyswitching

    Hi all, I'm very new to all this - I've been dreaming of the Symphonic Cube for about four years, and have at last managed to afford one. I'm hoping someone here could give a definitive answer either way - is it possible to use one attached MIDI keyboard to play the notes, and another for the keyswitches? My studio setup has three MIDI-capable keyboards, but none are the full 88 keys (they're 76, 61 and 25), and playing around with the transpose settings each time is getting annoying. I have more than 88 keys in total, they're just split across multiple keyboards... Any ideas please? Many thanks, Peter

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    @Pyre said:

    Hi all, I'm very new to all this - I've been dreaming of the Symphonic Cube for about four years, and have at last managed to afford one. I'm hoping someone here could give a definitive answer either way - is it possible to use one attached MIDI keyboard to play the notes, and another for the keyswitches? My studio setup has three MIDI-capable keyboards, but none are the full 88 keys (they're 76, 61 and 25), and playing around with the transpose settings each time is getting annoying. I have more than 88 keys in total, they're just split across multiple keyboards... Any ideas please? Many thanks, Peter

    Yes it is. I used to work this way because I got my Lemur.

    FWIW I found that the best thing to do was to set the KS keyboard to be the lowest octaves that MIDI allows, and to put all my KS in that octave. That enabled me to use the same KS for virtually all instruments, which made remembering them much easier.

    DG