UF is the most cost effective omnipotent master keyboard available

• The world's first duraluminum appearance MIDI master keyboard with pro synth concept
• The world's first capability for digital audio firewire expansion
• The world's first MIDI master keyboard with breath control
• The world's first full range series MIDI master keyboard with aftertouch, include 49 to 88 keys

Superior classic metallic panel
Now, most of manufactures utilize the plastic material to make the body section to save the cost, but it also reduce durability, and makes the product lack of professional elegant quality. However UF all-in-one master keyboard insists in metallic body with cool pure black, at the first moment you touch UF, you will fall in love with it.

Hammer action grand piano weighted
UF8 utilize the 88 keys hammer action grand piano weighted, which possess numerous international technology patent, it provides you with the grand piano touch feeling as well as the reliable durability. UF8 can give you sufficient reasons to play it as a real grand piano.

Powerful and plenty of controllers
UF keyboard provides 8 knobs, 9 sliders, pitchbend wheel and modulation wheel, and this configuration is almost not available in other Japanese or American product. With UF serise, you can easily control your music as you wish in realtime. And the control buttons such as REC, PLAY, REW, can remotely control your sequencer software in your computer directly, to make your project easy.

Specifications

• CME UF8 - 88 Key (A1-C7) Hammer-Action Weighted Keyboard
• Velocity Sensitive - with four preset velocity curves
• Aftertouch Sensitive - with dedicated on/off button
• Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels
• 8 Assignable Knobs - preset functions for Filter Cutoff / Resonance / Attack / Release / Pan / Reverb / Chorus / Tempo
• 9 Assignable Faders - preset to control volume on MIDI channels 1-16 and master volume
• Drawbar Organ Button - instantly switches faders to correct MIDI controller numbers for controlling Native Instruments B4 etc.
• Transpose Function - up/down one octave in semitones
• Octave Shift - up/down three octaves
• Keyboard Split
• Dual Function
• Chunky Transport Controls:
  • Start
  • Stop
  • Record
  • Rewind
  • Fast Forward
  • Return to Zero
• Breath Controller Input - assignable
• Volume Pedal Input - assignable
• Sustain Pedal Input - auto-sensing polarity on power-up
• LED Data Display - 8 segment, 3 digit
• 1 MIDI Out Port
• 1 USB Port - provides MIDI connection to and from a computer. Power can be supplied via USB
• DC Input Socket - for use with included AC adapter when not powered via USB or when breath controller input and aftertouch functions are required
• Win2000/XP and Mac OS X compatible
• Optional UF400e FireWire Audio Expansion Board

• CME UF8: 1408 x 372 x 150 mm

• CME UF8: 23.5 Kg

• 1 x UF Series MIDI Master Keyboard
• 1 x AC Adapter
• 1 x USB Cable
• 1 x User's Manual
• 1 x CD-ROM containing PC/Macintosh device drivers
• 1 x Piano-style sustain pedal (UF8 only)

• Edirol new releases for 2007 available now!

  The new Edirol products introduced at NAMM 2007 are now available from our web site.

• Part 3: Section 1: MIDI controllers

  Long live software instruments! Gone are the days when you needed a stack of keyboards to create tunes, as everything can now be done inside your computer at the click of a mouse. However, do you really want to be playing all of that software with a mouse? Wouldn’t you rather be doing it all with a proper piano type keyboard? Eh? So doesn’t that mean a return to piles of keyboard again, the very thing that software replaced? No! All you need is one keyboard to control every soft instrument you own! So you’d better make sure it’s a good one, right? Yes, and fortunately, or unfortunately depending on your viewpoint, there are loads of different sorts to choose from so we will discuss all of them here. And if you already own a keyboard but need extra control, don’t worry, because in Section 2 we’ll be looking at some keyboardless controllers that will enhance your desktop music making no end…

• Expansion Board for CME\'s UF Series Keyboards Announced

  CME, in conjunction with Terratec, announced the mLAN-enabled UF400e FireWire audio expansion board for UF series MIDI/USB keyboard controllers.