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Edirol PC-50

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PC-50

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49 Key USB MIDI Keyboard Controller

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49 premium full-size, velocity-sensitive keys designed to fit perfectly on your desk. The PC-50 offers the best value for music labs and simple home studios. The PC-50 is specifically built to offer you exactly what most people are looking for: a well-built expressive MIDI controller that is easy to setup and easier to use.
  • High-quality keyboard mechanism
  • 12 selectable velocity curves
  • 3-digit 7-segment LED and rotary encoder
  • Pitch bender/modulation lever
  • Convenient access to connections on side panel
  • Sustain & Expression pedal ports
  • MIDI out port
  • 3 forms of power supply: USB-bus, battery, AC adaptor

Expressive Response

The PC-50 features a keyboard mechanism derived from Roland’s newest technology. It's specifically designed to offer a wide dynamic range with incredible subtlety. The redesigned keys offer a better response to the player's touch, while also reducing mechanical noise and eliminating vertical shake in the key stroke.

In order to adapt to every player, the PC-50 includes four velocity curves and three levels of sensitivity, allowing the user to find the exact match to their own playing style. The PC-50 can also output “fixed” velocity selectable from 1-127, providing practical input for percussion programming.

Small Footprint

The PC-50’s chassis is only slightly larger than the actual controls, saving you valuable space on your desktop. It also offers convenient access to all of the ports from the left side of the device, including USB, MIDI output, Hold pedal input, and Expression Pedal input. This allows the PC-50 to sit directly in front of a monitor or laptop computer without wasting desktop space for cable connections.

Solving the Power Problem

The PC-50 can be used with or without a computer. When used with a computer, the PC-50 can draw power and send MIDI over the USB port, allowing you to reduce the clutter of having another device to plug into your power strip. The PC-50 can also draw power from an optional AC adapter or from four AA batteries, allowing you to use the PC-50 anywhere, with or without the computer.

EDIROL designs its USB devices in accordance with USB specifications and has passed all compatibility tests, which are continuously held and organized by USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF).

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Edirol PC-50 Reviews

9/10

PC - 50

— August 14, 2008

Great feel and low latency. Up and running within minutes. Joystick robust and \"feels\" right. Passing controls to Sonar Producer a breeze. Buy one

9/10

Nice one

— Karl May 20, 2008

I bought this in preference to the cheaper alternatives because it seemed to have a slightly classier feel and the info about the keys in the item description seemed to promise good solid construction. I'm glad I bought it, though I find the keys louder than expected, maybe my expectations were set too high by the description. That's a minor gripe, it's something I only notice when playing lower, quieter notes, when the sound of the key's movement takes over the sound of the note. That said, the overall construction and feel IS solid and well-made, so I'm sure the problem is not excessive in comparison with cheaper models. In fact, I imagine this is relatively good, but I can't compare as I haven't used any other keyboard. I only have a real piano to compare with, and the noise of the keys is about the same. It's probably the case that my standards and expectations from equipment are high, I like to know I got my money's worth.

The velocity curves this keyboard offers are excellent, and very helpful to me. I tend to play quite light, but changing the curve got me to miss fewer of the forte notes.

I'd also make a more general observation, in the hope that a keyboard manufacturer reads this. I appreciate that modulation and pitch shifting are useful in synthesizer music, but in many other types of playing they are of little use, at least to me. I would really appreciate if a keyboard like this allowed an easy mapping of sustain and expression control to the modulation/pitch lever. This is particularly true of a keyboard such as this one, targeted at people like me who want a simple, uncluttered solution. I'm not really looking forward to getting pedals and messing about with the wires and what not. Using the lever would be adequate.

All in all, an excellent unit and like the previous reviewer, I highly recommend it.

I also highly recommend Dolphin Music as a retailer. The site is first rate and so is the service. 10 out of 10 for that.

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10/10

Edirol PC-50

— John February 20, 2008

If, like me, you're a guitarist that needs to (reluctantly) include a simple keyboard part in your demo recordings, this is the device.

Reason identified the device with no problem and I was up and running in around 10 minutes - which is saying something for a midi-moron - thanks to the USB interface. The USB power is a welcome lessening of the number of cables necessarily trailing across my desk too.

Excellent value for money and with a high quality feel I can highly recommend this keyboard.

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