My keyboard controller arrived. Hooray!

Right on Beepster!! Which one did you get?

Beepster


poking at the GUI with my mouse. :-)

2nd best euphemism by Beepster EVER!!!!!

The leaflet is yammering on about something called DirectLink. Not sure how much extra M-Audio crap I want on my system though.

25 keys? you've got to be kidding, what can you possibly play on 25 keys...
not to mention m-audio oxygen has crappy keys action.
 

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25 keys? you've got to be kidding, what can you possibly play on 25 keys...
not to mention m-audio oxygen has crappy keys action.

Killjoy


BTW, I could play chords on 25 keys.

bapu

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25 keys? you've got to be kidding, what can you possibly play on 25 keys...
not to mention m-audio oxygen has crappy keys action.

Killjoy


BTW, I could play chords on 25 keys.

.....and with only 10 fingers (including Cake's Arp + Ez Keys) roight?

There is something to be said for a laptop keyboard, comfort sometimes trumps everything else... particularly as you age.

J

Mesh

bapu

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25 keys? you've got to be kidding, what can you possibly play on 25 keys...
not to mention m-audio oxygen has crappy keys action.

Killjoy


BTW, I could play chords on 25 keys.

.....and with only 10 fingers (including Cake's Arp + Ez Keys) roight?

since when good pianist has only 10 fingers???

Wow. Finally something that worked right out of the box. I didn't even have to install drivers. Score 1 for Team Beepster.

Currently my back is all twisted up just from laying down some drum tracks using my padKontrol. It is extremely frustrating especially considering I used to play REAL drums like a maniac in a thrash band. :-/

 
Yeah, back pain... SUQ!
 
Zanaflex+neurontin+vicoprofen, klonopin and fioracet inthe afternoon and more ibuprofen as needed ... works pretty well... still hurt but managable.
 
Young people and those who do not have chronic pain do not understand those who do and that if it hurts bad enough and all the time one will do whatever one has to do to get it bearable.
That said, I have been on much stronger meds (90mg morphine time release daily/fentanyl patch 50mcg per hr every 48 hrs/ Butrans patch, it is junk, stay away from Butrans... all these were with 3 VP a day).
Most recently the Dr. put me on Nucynta ER 150 2x per day. I didn't like it, I culdn't sleep at night. So, I had gone down (on my own) to one Nucynta a day, still in pain, took them to the Dr. last week and told them I was through with it. Dr. was in Paris, the PA gave me 3x vico a day and the Neurontin 300mg at bedtime... For several years leading up to last January I had just been taking 5 vicoprofen a day + the fioricet and klonopin and was doing OK'ish but I thought it was losing it's effectiveness, thought I needed a change... BAD MOVE! Let Me Tell You... I have learned to leave well enough alone. When I finally got off the Nucynta I felt like I had come out from under a blanket.
I guess I will see what the Dr. has to say when I see him next month. He has been absolutely intent, ever since the change in January on my taking an ER formulation (extended release) with NO breakthrough meds... that has never, ever worked for me.
All of this is all an absolute nightmare because of both the pain and the dependancy issues, if something isn't working well, there is ALWAYS the fear of what change they will make, will it work, will the dosage be enough or too much, will there be weird side effects. I am going to do my best to go back to the 5x VP daily. Then I can take less if I hurt less and have more for the bad days. I HATE having something in my system 24x7 whether I need it or not... and FWIW, I have, in ten years, never run out of meds. What I once abused, I now use... life is crazy sometimes but it don't have to hurt.
 
Oh, and I went through the physical therapy and epidurals years ago. I have degenerative disk disease and arthritis in the spine mostly arount T-1. If I take an epidural shot I break out with excema for three weeks and have about three days of relief sandwiched in the middle.
 
I think you are maybe still a little younger, (I am 60yo now). Take good care of yourself. Especially good care of your feet, back, and neck because if they hurt, you are rurnt (rurnt: a word for Steve, lol).
 
Anyway, I truly hope you feel better and you take care not to continue to aggrivate what may already be a problem. Sometimes a chiropractor can help... I like you and do not want you to hurt. You are, IMO, one of the "good guys".
 
Take care!
 
J

Wow. Finally something that worked right out of the box. I didn't even have to install drivers. Score 1 for Team Beepster.

 
Yeah... it is plug and play!!

Yeah ON.. it sneaks up on you.

That sucks, jbow. I'm actually in my 30s. I found out too late that I have a condition that leaves me vulnerable to nasty injuries and worked my body WAY too hard when I was younger. I lost everything because of it. Stupid doctors ignored my complaints when I first started showing signs. As far as drugs I'm now prescribed pretty much whatever I want but I hate taking pills so mostly I use ice and a heating pad which helps but I'm on the damned things most of the day. I do take ibuprofin and percs but WAY below the prescribed dosages and when things get really stupid I use some heavy duty muscle relaxers. I slipped a disc years ago and slooooowly worked my way back into being semi mobile again but then a few years ago it slipped ago and screwed up my legs. It is very frustrating because I was a very active and strong willed person now I'm stuck on my ass watching life pass me by. Music is the only thing keeping me sane (well... at least not koo koo wocka wocka smear poop on the wall crazy). If I had more money I'd go into hardcore rehabilitation to see if I can fix it but I don't so here I am. Anyway thanks for the kind words. You're pretty cool yerself. Cheers!

Yeah, that's why I try to avoid them. I also don't enjoy feeling like ass the next day. Cheers.

I have an Akai MPK Mini for much the same reason, limited space, and it works fine. I'm not a keyboard player so it's not as if I'm playing two handed parts or anything - like you, just inputting chords and baselines etc. although I am looking towards getting a full size keyboard and learning to play properly. For that reason I'm putting shelves up behind my desk with the lowest shelf low enough to put my monitors on, with just enough space to slide the keyboard underneath to keep it when I'm not playing. Would love to find some kind of under-desk sliding tray big enough for a keyboard, so I can slide it out when needed (oo-er).