ASCII keyboard for your E-4
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:18 pmheres a nice tiny one i found on ebay... its a point of sale keyboard with the old style PS2 plug... maybe you can find another one. nice & small.
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:18 pmPosted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:02 pmI use a normal PS2 keyboard with a din adaptor. It works fine.
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:01 amDo they speed work flow up much apart from just naming samples/patches etc?
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:35 pmTo be honest, I started using the ASCII keyboard as soon as I got the E4K because it suffered from double-triggering on certain keys and poor triggering on others.
Apart from naming samples, each main menu has its own Alt or Ctrl shortcut and the F1-F6 keys duplicate the function buttons on the E-mu. Keys 3 and 9 double up as Page Left/Right and +/- are used to increase/decrease values, although the rotary encoder is more user-friendly imho. Esc takes you back a level.
For someone who has an E4K with no button problems, the ASCII keyboard is not essential. If you are working with a rackmounted E4, the ASCII keyboard probably makes programming more comfortable overall rather than more efficient.
Gilles
Apart from naming samples, each main menu has its own Alt or Ctrl shortcut and the F1-F6 keys duplicate the function buttons on the E-mu. Keys 3 and 9 double up as Page Left/Right and +/- are used to increase/decrease values, although the rotary encoder is more user-friendly imho. Esc takes you back a level.
For someone who has an E4K with no button problems, the ASCII keyboard is not essential. If you are working with a rackmounted E4, the ASCII keyboard probably makes programming more comfortable overall rather than more efficient.
Gilles
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:07 pmyou can also use the + and - for quicksearching the presets, the numbers can be used to select drives, folders and banks 
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:42 pmthe keyboards certainly help if your emu is in a rack and you need to stoop to get to it.
I wonder if an ASCII keyboard, and a strategically placed Webcam that could show the Emu screen on your mac or PC desktop would be a way to get the screen up to eye level too......hmmmm
I wonder if an ASCII keyboard, and a strategically placed Webcam that could show the Emu screen on your mac or PC desktop would be a way to get the screen up to eye level too......hmmmm
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:13 pmkalide wrote:I wonder if an ASCII keyboard, and a strategically placed Webcam that could show the Emu screen on your mac or PC desktop would be a way to get the screen up to eye level too......hmmmm
ROFL
You might as well invest in a software editor!Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 3:45 pmI'd love it if there was one that worked reliably on Mac OS X :)
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:39 amkalide wrote:I'd love it if there was one that worked reliably on Mac OS X :)
You are using this for you sampler right?
Me personally, I just bought a ps2 to din adapter and use my old pc keyboard.
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:39 pmyes - my 'would like to use" was in response to the suggestion to use a software editor. I haven't found a software editor thats reliable for the Emu - anyone used Music Quest? Seems a lot of ppl have headaches with it.....
I have a Kbd + old PS/2 adapter which works fine as a remote controller.
I have a Kbd + old PS/2 adapter which works fine as a remote controller.