Just a word about the C.24–I lost mine in Nashville at NAfME. 24 was one of the few of those devices “in the wild” as they sent it to me early so that I could show it at various music education conferences. I asked them to consider BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) MIDI with their keyboard. I remember stopping by CME’s booth at TMEA, seeing the XKey for the first time, and showing them the Miselu C.24 keyboard.
SOUNDATION MIDI KEYBOARD PORTABLE
While the keyboard can be used for performance, the target was portable studio and notation work–something it is perfect for.
SOUNDATION MIDI KEYBOARD FULL
The features of that keyboard included high quality materials, full sized keys, function buttons (instead of wheels), velocity-sensitive keys, and low-travel keys. After reading some reviews on the Internet, I can’t tell when the original XKey came out (my best guess is 2014) as a high quality portable MIDI keyboard. While the company has been around since 1993, the current CME was formed in 2012.
The XKey first came to my attention in late 2014, as a representative from CME (or more specifically, their distributor in the United States) contacted me about the product and their coming attendance at TMEA. Special thanks to CME and Virgin Musical Instruments for making these products available for this review and for the sessions that I will be presenting in the 2016-2017 academic year.ĬME XKey Air (25 Key Model $199, 37 Key Model $299) CME XKey Air 25 Whie the WIDI BUD website is “live,” at the moment, the only place to buy the WIDI BUD is B&H (This will change over time). If you want to buy these devices, visit the CME Website. You can click on either of those last two links to skip to the section about that product, and there is a (20 minute) video at the end of the review. This review is going to look at a CME’s XKey Air and the CME WIDI BUD. As a music teacher and a musician–there are few occurrences where I am bursting with excitement about a product. I have a special affinity for technology that “changes the game” and makes technology easier to use or easier to incorporate into our lives. I love technology, and I love teaching others about technology in relation to what they are doing in their classrooms. I also had to publish an incomplete draft in order to add in-document links, so if you received e-mail notification about the post and it was incomplete, I apologize. If you want to read a very quick summary, check out my last post.
This is a long review, and I apologize for the length, but I am very fond of these items and they deserve some coverage.
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