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The Yamaha FC4 is a sustain foot pedal that comes with a 6’ cable. It will be perfect for your Yamaha or Roland keyboards. It is very affordable and cost less then 30 dollars. The pedal works well , the pedal is very responsive and it will give you good control. Most keyboards don’t come with pedals anymore because most of everything has went di...
I've got some old school synths and I've worried that previous keyboard stands weren't up to the task of holding three of them. The IQ3000 series is significantly heavier and heavier built than anything else I've seen. It folds easily and has a modular shelving system that easily allows me to stack 3 keyboards. At $350# the weight rating is adeq...
What I like most about this unit is it is very similar to Stutter Edit in regards to actual effects but it doesn't have the issues I have been facing with Stutter Edit. Specifically, the ability to control the plugin from Ableton while it resides in another program. I do this using the IAC midi driver in Mac OSX. The issue is I control everyt...
This pedal offers a great advancement in half damper effect without any line noise. It is excellent when recording audio piano tracks from line outputs. It adds one more piano “authentic” aspect to entertain the acoustic piano listener. Yamaha could make two improvements to this product. -- First, the amount of pedal travel before the ef...
The Proline PL-400 is a double braced keyboard stand, designed for holding up heavy duty keyboard and workstations. I've only used the PL-400 in the recording studio, but of course it has the same use both on the stage or in the studio, so either way it doesn't really matter. In general, the PL-400 is built pretty decently overall. It has a l...
The QuikLok T-10 is a simple keyboard stand that is suitable for use both in the studio or on the stage. I've only used it in the recording studio, but the application is really the same either way. This isn't the sturdiest stand that I've used, so in the studio we generally only use it for smaller and lighter keyboards like a Nord. Don't get...
The Yamaha FC-4 is a high quality sustain pedal designed for use with a number of different digital keyboards. It has a standard 1/4" cable on the end of it, so anything other than a Korg Triton that has a 1/4" jack for a sustain output will work with the FC-4 as far as I know. The FC-4 is definitely one of the better external sustain pedals t...
The Yamaha FC-5 is a simple sustain pedal for use with any sort of keyboard or MIDI controller. I've used the FC-5 with a few different keyboards out there, as it will work with any keyboard that has a 1/4 inch output for sustain (which includes just about every keyboard ever made). I've used the sustain pedal with the M-Audio 49e Keystation M...
I purchased this thing originally to be used as an expression pedal. It is supposed to be a stereo volume pedal and a dual expression pedal. What I don't like about it is the expression pedal option is virtually useless. The main issue is the volume "jumps" from 0 to around 25 before continuing up, thus making it useless for "swells" or contr...
The On-Stage Stands KS7365-EJ is a dual layered keyboard stand, capable of holding up just about any type of keyboard. Like the name of the company states, this is probably best suited for live shows, but I have used it in the studio since I'm not a gigging keyboard player. I used the stand to have two different keyboards up and playable at th...
