emusonacid! legacy

by **alien_brain** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:18 pm

heres 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.

by **gcoudert** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:02 pm

I use a normal PS2 keyboard with a din adaptor. It works fine.

by **jamie8286** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:01 am

Do they speed work flow up much apart from just naming samples/patches etc?

by **gcoudert** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:35 pm

To 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

by **Freekroffel** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:07 pm

you can also use the + and - for quicksearching the presets, the numbers can be used to select drives, folders and banks :thumbs:

by **kalide** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:42 pm

the 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

by **gcoudert** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:13 pm

kalide 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!

by **kalide** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 3:45 pm

I'd love it if there was one that worked reliably on Mac OS X :)

by **crytek** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:39 am

kalide 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.

by **kalide** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:39 pm

yes - 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.

emusonacid! legacy

ASCII keyboard for your E-4

ASCII keyboard for your E-4