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Enaliand Enaliand
Published on 06/02/05 at 06:14
Value For Money : Excellent
-Master keyboard 88 keys (Hammer-Action)
-Port USB and midi out, Firewire Audio Expansion

UTILIZATION

-Touch of UF8 is good, but as usual, it's a personal matter (as for me I am very picky, being a classical pianist, and "home studio") I will compare to UF8 of other keyboards.
The UF8 completely overwrites the Keystation Pro and is below the motif es 8 or S90.
Before me the store was located a RD 300 SX and I thought that was close to touching the UF8.
To test the keyboard, I play all styles (classical, jazz, variety) in general, all keyboards are doing not too bad for styles such as: the variety and jazz, but a bit sharper as Chopin Etudes, some keyboards (I should say a lot) do not coup.L 'UF8 is doing no worse than another against a more technical directory. So for the mad speed and other techniques at the keyboard, you should see your account.

Ma-general configuration is simple, I use a Motif ES Rack, and I did not need to open the manual. (I feel like I have a Motif ES 8 in red;))

-As for the MIDI function, they are just as easy. Everything falls under the eyes and fingers, there is press and it works! Program change, transpose, MIDI channel, volume track and 16 tracks, velocity / Curve with 4 positions (very useful depending on the chosen instrument)

-The manual is available in French and English, clear and suffisant.La machine itself and easily accessible.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for ten days and everything goes fine. This keyboard seems very sturdy, and I did undergo some tests playing at full strength to challenge his concluding résistance.Teste Keystation unlike when I heard the springs that moved after a game a little too excited! velocity that is not really what I was playing (I do not spit on the Keystation, MIDI functions are also very good, and some people get a fair deal. (It's just a personal opinion)

-What j'aprécis most about this keyboard is the ease of use, and I just regret that he did not Graded Hammer.A about, I phoned home Arbiter France to get advice before my purchase, I hesitated between the Fatar VKM 188 which is Graded Hammer and UF8. The person I had in my phone urged the UF8, telling me that the answer to velocity was better than the Fatar, Arbiter, however, provided the two scrub!.

-Mount models tested before the purchase was Keystation, P120, S90, Edirol PCRM (in order to achieve the same result with a different configuration, more or less) either:
Keyboard 88 "Graded" Hammer with midi controller, pitch bend and modulation

The price-quality ratio is excellent € 529 for a keyboard hit heavy with all the functions needed twelve o'clock (do the comparisons with competitors, or what it takes to achieve the same result)

-I would do the purchase without any problems and I have not bought on a whim, I tried other configurations to achieve my final goal: 88 keys hammer + midi controllers.