How I chose my keyboard (Piano)

When it came to choosing which keyboard to buy, I wanted something affordable (£100 - £200), with control knobs, buttons, sliders, and a drum pad, so that I could control certain parts of my DAW, Fl studio through the keyboard. And I wanted a keyboard with full size keys, so that I could also learn to play the keyboard as if it were just a piano. It seemed impossible to find this considering that keyboards are fairly expensive for some reason, and my expectations were too high for a keyboard within that price range.

WELL I WAS WRONG. I found the Alesis VI61 keyboard on amazon; the keyboard had plenty of full sized keys (61 of them as the name suggests), 48 buttons, 16 control knobs, and 16 drum pads. This keyboard also had "semi weighted keys", which makes the keys feel really good to push down on. The drum pads also light up when you press on them, where the colour determines how hard you have pressed on the pad - because it's cool like that.

its pretty cool as you can see

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But everything has it's drawbacks, and the £185 price tag is certainly one of them in my opinion. (yes I know I said it was affordable earlier, but I have a relatively low budget) If you're new to the music production scene, it's worth having a look at a much cheaper keyboard, maybe below £50 to see whether producing music is really for you. That's what I did, when I had my old Akai LPK 25 keyboard with only 25 small keys. It's definitely worth checking out a cheaper keyboard first to get an idea of what this is about.

I'm fully aware that this blog about how I chose my keyboard transformed into a review of my keyboard, but that's chill.

Have a good day,

Jack.