If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. First things first: not all keyboards are MIDI ...

MIDI is, in a word, a godsend. This unassuming data-transfer standard is the magic sauce that enables drastically different music technologies, developed decades apart, to tell each other what to do – ...

It's been the primary means of MIDI note input for computer-based musicians since the 80s, but is it time for MIDI keyboard manufacturers to reappraise the humble piano keyboard and take it somewhere ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NAMM 2020: We’ve seen isomorphic keyboards before, but we doubt that there’s ever been one that ...

The progress for electronics over the past seven decades or so has always trended towards smaller or more dense components. Moore’s Law is the famous example of this, but even when we’re not talking ...

As input methods like the Gauntlet, Kee4, ASETNIOP and the back-type prototype from AlphaUI effectively demonstrate, there are many novel ways to enter text into a computer system. I'll wager that few ...

MIDI instruments are cool, but they’re not laser cool. That is, unless you’ve added lasers to your MIDI instrument like [Lasse]. [Lasse] started out with an old MIDI keyboard. The plan was to recycle ...

Artists have long attempted to create music that inspires euphoria, but songs meant to overload listeners and computer processors with hundreds of rapid-fire notes? That's new. A budding genre known ...