Midi Keyboard

midi keyboard?
im going to bye a new pc for producing music. im gonna use reason4 and sonar 7 for music. what i want to know is
1 whether it is the ultimate necessety for any hardcore musician to have a midi keyboard or i can go without it doing great job easily ?
2 what is the difference in a midi keyboard , controller , sontrol surface (please brief me)
3 which one of the above three is best by functions , controls ,ease etc?
4 i am not a pianist but more like a drummist so what should i use to play soft synths on my pc ?
5 what to bye for playing for synths ? im in china currently for some business so the problem is neither i nor the shopkeepers know about midi keyboard . so tell me what is the difference b/w a general keyboard and a midi keyboard both functionally and physically ?
6 suggest a single proper thing if u could for me to use with reason 4 and sonar 7 !
7 can a midi keyboard play drum synths ?
all ur help is greatly appreciated. give some pictorial links plz!
Oh… Sounds more like a Master Thesis… Sorry, I’m not gonna dot all the Is, but at least you’ll have clearer idea.
MIDI keyboard is just a controller, it has no sound banks of its own. Striking a key you can control some vital elements of the sound: volume, lenght, speed of release… But to actually produce sounds MIDI keyboard has to work in pair with an external synthesizer/sound bank/software: the keyboard guides that “brain” how the selected tone should sound.
(To further misquide you – some latest MIDI keyboards have basic additional sound modules, so they can work as controllers or be connected to an amplifier to produce basic keyboard tones: piano, organs, etc.)
It’s absolutely up to you whether to use MIDI keyboard or to save on it. Absolute majority of modern music software has so-called “piano rolls” – basically on-screen keyboards where you can add sounds with your computer keyboard or mouse. So, if You Need only pad sounds or some screeches – just use that “piano roll”. If your keyboard parts look rather advanced or You Want them to sound close to real playing – then you need a keyboard. But then you need to know how to play it…
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OF COURSE MIDI keyboard is capable of playing any tone you’ll assign to it, drums included. There are keyboard maps in most of the drum synths – it states which kind of drum is under which key. So yeah, you can do pretty amazing drum parts with just one hand.
But, again, it all goes about realistic feeling – attack, release, reverbiration…
My personal pick is Korg K-series: can be K-25, K-49 or K-61. Very good feel of the keys, absolute easiness to use, plus it comes with some nice software. By the way model K-61P has that additional basic sound module. I wouldn’t mind to have it as a gratitude for my answer.
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