[FoRK] music on OS X, Part III

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 10:45:01AM -0800, Ian Andrew Bell wrote:
> I just bought one of these for $100 at the Apple Store and it was 100%  
> hassle free.

Yes, but it's also 88-key-free, and also graded-hammer-action-free.
I'm cheap, but I'm not M-Audio cheap. I need to replicate the feel
of piano mechanics as closely as possible, without to having to shell
out multiple kilobucks, all for a fancy MIDI master (and a nasty-ass
piece of furniture to boot). 
 
> 	http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Keystation49e-main.html
> 
> Probably would have been much less hassle.

Dunno, hate cheap synth keyboards. Probably for the same tactile-snob 
reason I can't use anything else than a Model M, and a particular 
model of rodent (am I the only one who has grown to hate the 
Logitech G9, and wonders why they can't make decent MX-518?).
 
> Only gripe is that I wish that the USB keyboard could wake the Mac  
> when it's sleeping.

Mine never does. It's too busy being a Tor/DNS/mail/SMB server, and
a general always-on browsing and mailing machine. I'm a bit anxious
about January 2008, as Steve's idea of product consistency is completely
bugfuck. Instead of slightly bumping up the Mac mini to Santa Rosa,
he might as well pull a Newton, a NeXT, a Cube, or kill it for some 
inane "innovation".
 
> Not sure how to get you a nice sounding Piana.

I should probably find a pirated version of it somewhere, before
I plunk down some 350 US$, which is quite a lot, since being proprietary 
software. Also the idea of 40 GBytes worth of samples is a bit scary.
Whatever happened to that physical modelling thing? Too high latency,
probably, even with today's CPUs.

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