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Evolution Mk-361

61-Key MIDI Keyboard from Evolution

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Published on 12/22/03 at 06:39
61 keys, something quite rare on keyboards master amateur. It is very convenient and saves me ca play with transposing all the time, eg when programming of batteries: it has access to everything the kit immediately.
The connection is quite simple: a USB port (cable supplied) and a standard MIDI Out port (cable port joystick afternoon din supplied). It allows to control a pc as well as a sound module. This is also what motivates me because I have a motherboard with a via KT133A, the Via chipset problematic. The problem in question is directly related to the usb (particularly to the supply via the USB). So I was sure the keyboard midi out to my normal sound card if pb ... But the bp has been resolved by using patches for a while now and it frees me so the joystick port for something else (in this case, the pod).
For the rest: dynamic touch light, several velocity curves possible, multiple patches, transposition, pitch wheel and modulation, volume fader, sustain pedal input, etc ... in short everything that is basic to a master keyboard.

UTILIZATION

Touch is hard enough for my use and flexible, although I increasingly want to spend a semi lourd.Mais the prices are not the same.
The config info is quite simple in driver: under 98 you must install the USB, and XP (not tested in 2000), there's plugguer! And set power on ... necessarily. It is advisable to mount the drivers of evolution for better perfs, but it can very well turn with the default driver from XP.
The direct configuration of the keyboard is quite simple, some key combinations allow you to access the cfg Advanced (combination type shift + key)
Manual: I got it in french dc no pb. A 10aine pages is not much, but on the other side is not an airbus that sells you!
Also note that the site of evolution is quite complete with manuals (in french) and updates of drivers accompanied readme in french too.
As against the apps that come with ... Actually I tried to mount them out of curiosity, and I demonte that evening ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 2 years now.
I quite like the simplicity: you plug, you play. As against less like the absence of additional controllers (but this is also due to his age). He is also a bit cheap, but at the price where it is, it's rather normal. And finally there is not really ...
I tested other models before, in the same price range, but can not remember which. He had the best touch.
The value for money is rather (was) not bad. By revolutionary, but far from being a thief.
Is what I would do this choice? it depends: if the supply was still limited in this price range or at the time I bought it, I referrer that choice without much hesitation. on the other hand today ... I would tend to a kind edirol pcr 50 for a few euros more than the mk361 now (but at the price I bought mine)
Overall I am satisfied, and I envisage no way to change the keyboard for now