Fred
March 26, 2009

Rating: 9/10

\"The eagle has landed\" was the quote from my wife when she called me to say it had arrived, \"its in the shed and its staying there till you get home\" she said, I knew why when I arrived home, its absolutely massive and weighs a ton. Once out of the box took 15 mins to set up, windows xp detected the device without driver disk, a big plus point that one. fired up my scope environment on my pc and I encountered a small issue, no power supply in the box! so midi wont work on its own without one unless you have the usb cable plugged in and set the link mode to 2 or 3. (A good idea is to print off the manual from the website and read before the controller arrives), fired up my fav synth and was amazed of the response from the keyboard and the ease of changing presets with the continuous controller knob, btw, all the knobs are CC knobs (no stops) and has a cool LED when you activate it. The only thing i cant fathom out yet is how the thing selects bank of presets on certain soft synths (tech support any ideas?) Ill be honest with you, im not a piano player but the keyboard is a pleasure to use and cant wait till i can afford the expansions (3 of em) only supplied one set of cables but look like you can get more from ESI if required. If i suss out the bank select I would give the unit a 10.