Midi software to get with a digital keyboard

Midi software to get with a digital keyboard

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pistonheadforum

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Monday 8th February 2016
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Hi,

So I'm getting a Yamaha CLP-575 mainly for the keyboard action that matches a real piano and is also within budget.

I don't need all features that Yamaha offer in their CLV range but would like to get some software for messing around and (in particular) sampling and triggering via the keyboard. The piano connects via USB and I have a pretty powerful PC (i7). All the toys that are part of the CLV, I am assuming I can replicate using software on the PC?

I am looking at Pianoteq which seems to be pretty good for piano modeling, but don't know what sequencing/sampling software to get that's around £100 or so and easy to learn whilst also being flexible. Pianoteq budget level under £100 is about the amount I'd like to spend on sampling/sequencing software.

Are the opensource software packages worth using for this kind of messing around?

Many thanks,

pistonheadforum

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Tuesday 9th February 2016
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Seems that Properheads Reason might be the droid I'm looking for.

Monty Python

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196 months

Wednesday 10th February 2016
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pistonheadforum said:
Seems that Properheads Reason might be the droid I'm looking for.
You won't get the proper version of Reason for £100, only the Essentials which doesn't include sampling.

Edited by Monty Python on Wednesday 10th February 10:43

DanoS4

863 posts

193 months

Wednesday 10th February 2016
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The other one to look at is Reaper

pistonheadforum

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Thursday 11th February 2016
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Thanks - seems that Reason Essentials comes with NN-XT Advanced Sampler and Live Sampling Editor.

Just not the NN19 Sampler, but not sure what that does or if I would want it.

Monty Python

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Thursday 11th February 2016
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pistonheadforum said:
Thanks - seems that Reason Essentials comes with NN-XT Advanced Sampler and Live Sampling Editor.

Just not the NN19 Sampler, but not sure what that does or if I would want it.
NN-XT and NN19 are playback only - sampling was introduced in version 8 (the full version).

Cupramax

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251 months

Sunday 14th February 2016
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Are you sure it doesnt come with anything? I Recently bought a Yamaha Moxf6 and it came with Cubase license (Yamaha own Steinberg)