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MIDI keyboards are a kind of missing link in the modern world of computer generated audio. A great many music hobbyists and professionals working in the field of electronic music are generating their sounds and music from inside their computers. The sounds themselves are synthesized by the computer in a virtual environment, and it is the job of a MIDI controller or MIDI keyboard to control these sounds and make them playable just like a traditional musical instrument.

It is a little more complicated than that and MIDI controller keyboards can come in many varieties, differing in price and in features between different models. Piano keyboards will generally try and imitate a piano playing experience with sampled piano sounds and familiar hardware like foot pedals. A MIDI keyboard controller on the other hand either includes a hardware synthesizer on board in which case it is probably best called a synthesizer, or it acts as an interface to a computer running virtual synthesizer programs.

The models that do not include their own synthesis engine are much cheaper but can still be complex pieces of equipment due to the controller functions that they include. Yamaha MIDI keyboards and Roland MIDI keyboards are two popular brands but other companies have developed innovative models in recent years. The remote midi keyboard by novation has become a standard in many music circles, and they have many varieties of this model available. Korg MIDI keyboards and casio MIDI keyboards are also popular with different features and models available.

One function that effects the price is weather the model has a weighted action in the keyboard, many cheap MIDI keyboards do not and have a plastic kind of feel when they are played. More expensive MIDI keyboards will have either a full or a semi weighted action and will feel much more responsive to touch. Aftertouch is another feature sometimes left out on cheap MIDI keyboards, yet most professional keyboard players find this to be a necessary function. The third effect on price is simply the number and quality of the knobs and sliders that control the MIDI data along with the piano style keys.

Most keyboards today are USB MIDI keyboards and connect through the USB port to a host computer. Some however do require a MIDI interface that will need to be installed on the computer before they will work. MIDI keyboard controllers connect through the MIDI data protocol and effect and alter how the synthesizer engine creates sound, whether that engine lies in the MIDI keyboard itself or on a host computer running virtual instruments. There are many different models and brands available, it is best to do your homework before you buy, and probably better to not get the cheaper models as you can grow out of them rather quickly.

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Roland Keyboards

A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave.

Roland Corporation was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on April 18, 1972, with ¥33 million in capital. Today it has factories in Japan, the United States, Italy, and Taiwan. It has existed in different forms since 1960, making it one of the oldest still-operating manufacturers of musical electronics, and has survived changes in technology to become one of the most noteworthy and widely-used brands in electronic music and production today.

Roland involves in the development, manufacture and sale of electronic musical instruments including keyboards and synthesizers, guitar products, electronic percussion kits, digital recording equipment, amplifiers and audio processing devices.

Roland offers a full range of keyboards and synthesizers that lead the industry in performance, features, and ease of use. From the beginner to the professional, Roland keyboards and synths are among the most popular in the world.

Roland Keyboards include:

Synths & Samplers: Professional keyboards, synthesizers and music workstations.

Arrangers: A wide range of arranger-style keyboards for playing or composing with ease.

Controllers: MIDI controller keyboards and pedalboards.

Sound Modules: Professional tabletop and rackmount synthesizer modules.

Accordions: Roland is pleased to introduce a revolutionary new family of instruments — the V-Accordions.

VIMA: Video Interactive keyboard products for Recreational Music Making.

Amplifiers: The ultimate compliment to any performance or studio keyboard.

MIDI Interfaces: Devices for connecting your MIDI instrument(s) to a computer.

Timeline of noteworthy products

1973 – Roland SH-1000: Claimed by Roland to be Japan’s first commercial keyboard synthesizer.

1988 – Roland E-20: Roland’s first entry into the auto-accompaniment keyboard market, going head to head with Yamaha and Casio. The E-20′s descendants include the E-70, E-86, G-800, G-1000, G-70 and the current E-80.

1989 – Roland W-30: A sampling workstation keyboard

1992 – Roland DJ-70: A DJ sampling music workstation and synthesizer keyboard that featured the first scratch wheel pad.

1996 – Roland DJ-70mkII: Successor to the DJ-70, with more powerful features, including a DJ sampling music workstation, which featured a scratch wheel pad. It is essentially an S-760 sampler with a keyboard.

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