OK, what's the deal with midi controllers? I mean, seriously. I have one of those cheap learning keyboards, I think I got it for like $50, it was on sale but still. It has speakers, plays a bunch of demo songs, its own sounds, typical standard 61 full keys keyboard. So here's my question.
Are there any cheaper accessible and decent midi controllers? I mean, the axiom, which I admit looks pretty nice, is like $200 plus for a 25-key model. OK, my keyboard has no velocity etc. and no mod and pitchbend wheels, etc., but then the midi controllers have no sounds of their own. And what's the deal with everything being USB? I have a midi interface, I don't really need the USB capability. Is there anything that's cheaper and just hooks up to the midi interface I've already got? I don't understand the crazy prices in midi controllers. I mean, hell, I could probably get a vaguely decent mid-level keyboard with wheels and sensitivity and such with midi capability for the price of most midi controllers, why don't I just do that? Obviously the midi controller has more controls for midi, sliders and such, that another keyboard probably wouldn't have, and really I don't use my keyboard for anything but soft synth control now, hence the interest in a midi controller. But I'm really wondering, with the prices, if a midi controller is really giving me enough value Vs. a different keyboard, for what I'd pay for one.
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