M-VAVE 25 Key USB MIDI Keyboard Controller With 8 Backlit Drum Pads, Bluetooth Semi Weighted Professional dynamic keybed 8 Knobs and Music Production,Software Included (Pink)

If you're a beginner looking to kickstart your music production journey on Logic Pro for iPad, look no further than the M-WAVE 25 Key USB MIDI Keyboard. This delightful pink keyboard is not just a charming addition to your setup, but it also proves to be an essential tool for aspiring musicians and producers alike.Design and Aesthetics:The M-WAVE MIDI Keyboard is an absolute stunner when it comes to design. Its vibrant pink color sets it apart from the sea of conventional black and white keyboards, making it a refreshing choice for anyone seeking a touch of personality in their music workspace. The compact and lightweight design ensure that it doesn't take up too much space and can be easily carried around wherever your music takes you.Build Quality:Despite its lightweight nature, the build quality of the M-WAVE MIDI Keyboard is surprisingly sturdy and durable. The keys have a reassuring responsiveness that strikes the perfect balance between being soft to the touch for smooth playability and having enough resistance to feel like a real instrument. Rest assured, you'll be able to create music without worrying about premature wear and tear.Plug-and-Play Convenience:For beginners diving into the world of music production, ease of use is crucial. The M-WAVE keyboard shines in this department, as it effortlessly connects to your iPad through a USB connection. There's no need for additional drivers or complex setups – just plug it in, and you're ready to start playing. This simplicity means you can focus more on honing your skills and less on technical hassles.Perfect for Learning Logic Pro:If you're learning Logic Pro on your iPad, the M-WAVE MIDI Keyboard is a game-changer. Its 25 keys offer just the right range for beginners to experiment with melodies, chords, and beats. Whether you're playing virtual instruments, tapping out drum patterns, or inputting notes into the piano roll, this keyboard provides an intuitive and tactile experience that enhances your creative flow.Versatile Functionality:Despite its compact size, the M-WAVE MIDI Keyboard offers more functionality than meets the eye. It includes essential controls like pitch bend, modulation wheels, octave shifting, and sustain, giving you greater expressiveness and control over your music. These features are essential for adding nuance and dynamics to your compositions.Value for Money:Considering its affordable price point, the M-WAVE MIDI Keyboard offers fantastic value for money. For beginners, it provides an entry into the world of music production without breaking the bank. Moreover, its compatibility with Logic Pro on the iPad ensures that you won't need to invest in a more expensive MIDI controller right away. It's a wise investment for aspiring musicians on a budget.

Interested in making music on iOS? This MIDI controller is THE easiest way to get started and get to the fun part - making music! It's also well constructed, surprisingly configurable, and best of all: no wires!Most music creation setups require a fixed workstation with cables snaking everywhere, but the handy thing about iPads is how mobile they are. Until now, making music on iOS also required a setup with at least 2 cables, plus a $40 adapter from Apple. You might even need to add a powered USB hub in the middle of all that. Good luck playing music on your couch!That's why I was so excited to find this keyboard controller - it uses low energy bluetooth to connect to your iOS device wirelessly and that's all you need to get up and running! Just switch the power on, a couple of taps in your music app of choice (NOT via the usual bluetooth settings page - connect to it within your music app!) and you can start creating your next song!As for the keyboard itself, it's quite well made for the price. It uses minikeys to keep the size down so you can toss the controller and an iPad in a backpack and work on the go. The keys feel very good at this price point, and are velocity sensitive so you can add dynamics to your playing. The knobs are also solid and spin infinitely. The pads have a good feel to them as well, a bit of give but don't trigger with minimal pressure, so there's no accidental hits. The only misstep are the pitch bend and mod strips; they work adequately but it may not be the tactile response you're used to. There's 8 knobs and 8 pads, but a single button press for each switches their controls to a second bank or 8 each and essentially doubles the number of controls you have!Extra features that you might not expect to find on a controller at this price point include an arpeggiator that can be controlled via the keys, a smart chord and smart scale system (play chords with one finger! Never play an off-scale note again!), and the ability to change velocity curves for the pads and keys from the controller itself.This product is not made by one of the big names in music devices which saves you some serious money. It also means that the documentation is a little sparse - but I'm here to fill in the gaps so you can get the best experience for the best price! The controller comes with 8 presets that are preconfigured pretty intelligently - preset 1 follows the classic MIDI setup of having keys transmit on MIDI channel 1, and the pads, representing drums, on MIDI channel 10. Works right out of the box.But if you want more control, there's a free iOS app that gives you virtually complete control over every input on the controller. It's called "cube suite" - and make sure you search of it in the app store just as I typed it there because the app store is not smart about searching for apps. cubesuite, all one word will give you zero results. This app is well done but has some minor rough edges - expect minor spelling mistakes and the very occasional "what does that mean?" That said, I've always been able to get it to do what I need.On opening cube suite, if your controller isn't immediately recognized (the official name is the SMK25), hit scan nearby devices at the bottom, and it should find and connect. Tap the SMK25 icon and then you'll be taken to a screen with two sections. The top, "GLOB" for global, exposes the controls in app form that you can also control from the keyboard, namely, the arpeggiator, smart scale/chords, and key and pad velocity. Nice to have, but you can change those settings from the controller, so it's not strictly necessary.The last tab, "Preset" is where things get interesting. There's 8 presets on the controller. This is where you select what preset the controller is using (also can be done on the controller by pressing 2 buttons together and then pressing one of the pads - 8 pads, 8 presets!), but more importantly you can make changes to the controls in the bottom section of the screen (USER CONFIG) - the keys, pads, knobs, pitch/mod strips, and transport buttons - and then use "Persistent save" to save those changes to the selected preset, giving you ultimate control! You can even set the exact color you want the Pad LEDs to be - and I have to say they look very slick.How to change what the controls do: USER CONFIG has 5 tabs, each representing a type of control. So "Pad" lets you customize the pads. And oh boy are they customizable: you can set them to send lots of different type of MIDI commands. Send notes, program changes, momentary CC signals, toggle CC signals. Depending on the type of signal, there are appropriate subsettings to change as well. For example, in CC toggle mode, you can say what 2 values to send each time you "toggle" the pad by hitting it - send 127 and 127 (full on), send 0 and 127 (full off and full on), send 43 and 87 (I don't know why, but you can!).At the top of the section is "Pad Index" - this is which pad you are editing, and then all the possible things you can set it to are below that. Tap the pad on the right to select which of the 16 pads you want to change. The same is true for knobs. Keys are a bit different - you set what channel to send the keys over, and then can set what note each key will send. Note that this is one off the few poor UI experiences - for example, MIDI values can range from 0 to 127 and rather then letting you type in the number, you have to navigate a drop down list with 128 different entries, one for each number. Not a huge deal since you will only be occasionally changing the controls on the controller, but it isn't ideal. And if you are changing the controls very often - time to upgrade and get a serious MIDI controller that makes it easy to program it to your heart's content!Anyways, once you have the controls the way you like them, hit "Persistent Save" to save the preset back to the controller, and with just 2 button presses on the controller, you have your preset ready for jamming!Just to give you an example of how powerful this amount of control is, here's my setup: Presets 1 through 4 have been customized by me to send on the same channel number. So preset 1 sends on MIDI channel 1, 2 on 2, etc. This allows me to put different instruments in my music software and have them listen only on those channels. So I can hit the pads on channel 1 and get some drums going, then by pressing the preset change button and then pad 2 - now I'm playing bass on the keys! I can switch super easily and get back to the fun part - writing and playing some tunes!Alright, if you've stuck with me this long, here's my summary: this controller is well made for the price, highly configurable even if it's not the fastest process, but most importantly - EXTREMELY EASY to get up and running with ZERO wires. It's got a 2000 mAH battery (with charging cable) that lasts longer than my iPad's battery and I'm really enjoying it.Get it for making music anywhere - an iPhone and this keyboard in a backpack lets you make music on the beach, at the park - anywhere. Get it for kids and teens who want to get into music without a huge upfront cost. Get it for noodling on your couch.Just Get It!

I bought this because I wanted a small, portable Midi Keyboard to do composing on the go. I haven't had it for super-long yet(about month). That said, so far, it is working out great. The controls and bluetooth pairing are intuitive and easy to figure out. The profile is compact and good for on-the-go composing. The sliders are a good feature for compactness and work fine. The wireless function is very convenient too. I have not noticed any lagging so far. The rubber pad buttons seem robust enough. It also came already charged which was cool. Finally, the price is very reasonable for the size and the Wireless Bluetooth capability. Besides the earlier 8-button version, it was the cheapest Bluetooth mini keyboard I could find. I like it!

Adiós Akai, adiós Novation, adiós Arturia…Ninguno de esos controlcitos de 2000-3500 pesos le llegan si quiera a los talones a este; PERO HAY QUE TENER CUIDADO… lo malo de los productos de este tipo (creo que “Chino” o bueno, de uno de los “dragones” pues), es que muy seguido vienen pésimamente documentados y encontrar dicha documentación es prácticamente imposible (porque los venden con 50 nombres distintos jajajaja).En fin, existe en estas opiniones un comentario sumamente extenso que da prácticamente todos los tips que necesitas para darte cuenta de que SÍ, es MUCHO MEJOR aparto que cualquiera de las otras marcas.Además de lo obvio (tiene Bluetooth, tiene batería… y los “pros” no tienen nada en comparación a esto), es el ÚNICO control que conozco que tiene una aplicación en iOS para realizar la modificación de la configuración de perfiles.Por si esto fuese poco, a diferencia de “los pros”, las perillas de este control SÍ son verdaderamente “infinitas”:Muy seguido (HMMM AKAI ARTURIA?) le ponen “knobs” infinitos (perillas), pero el maldito software no los utiliza 😂 —> es decir que las perillas en hardware giran infinitamente pero los midi CC que envían son “capeados” y no “relativos”. Es decir que cuando uno los mueve izquierda o derecha “cambian de 0 a 127” de manera continua en vez de dar simplemente un mensaje de “incremento” o “decremento” (que es como deberían de funcionar las perillas infinitas).Gracias a esto, puedo asignar un canal midi a cada “preset” del control, cambiar mis perillas al modo CW en vez de CC (SUMAMENTE IMPORTANTE SINO TUS PERILLAS ACTUARÁN COMO LAS TONTERÍAS QUE OFRECEN “los pros”), y con estas perillas relativas controlar hasta 8 parámetros distintos POR SYNTH! Y puedo controlar 8 synths en paralelo (dado el número de presets).En fin, estuve apunto de devolverlo y quejarme de esto de las perillas “infinitas” que según yo este aparato TAMPOCO tenía (arturia y Akai las tienen físicamente, repito, pero en términos de hardware el controlador midi no las utiliza como tal 😂), pero gracias al comentario que recomendó la aplicación esta “CubeSuite”, ahora tengo el mejor controlador de todos (especialmente porque además es Bluetooth y todo ese rollo previamente mencionado antes de la belleza de las perillas y el software asociado a este controlador).Toda una joya -> mi pianito favorito y tengo / he probado MUCHOS.