It arrived yesterday. I ordered it from Inta Audio on New Years Eve, so that's not a bad delivery time I suppose. Could have been worse, considering the problems my father has had lately with on-line shopping but that's all down to karma.
Out of the box and the first thing hits me....the paper manual is woefully small and although the supplied CD-ROM says that it contains drivers, it actually doesn't. This is slightly irksome, but seeing as I only paid £60, not that much of a problem.......or so I thought.
The keyboard itself is robust, well laid out and seems as if it will stand up to a few years of being bashed about and hit very hard with my huge, sausage-like fingers. The manual states that it requires no drivers, so it's plug and play time. USB cable in, power on.....nothing.
A quick examination of the hardware drivers states that no driver has been loaded.
Some head scratching and 45 minutes later, I find out that you need to follow the instructions on the pdf manual, not the quick start guide. D'oh! After following these instructions, all was well and everything installed.
The drivers on the CD are for a system called DirectLink which worked for me in both Cubase and Pro Tools. It's a very simple controller, yet feels right under my fingers and keeps me away from drawing in my MIDI notes with my mouse. And even after the faffing around with driver installs, it's well worth £60.
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