midiplus i61 USB MIDI Keyboard controller

For the price, it can't be beat! Got this for my home recording studio and to also learn to play boogie-woogie style piano on a full size keyboard. My main concern was that it take up as little space as possible, which it does and is affordable, which it is. Key action is fine but my boogie needs work. It's been collecting dust in the corner for a little while now but honestly this is it's primary job - dust magnet. Time for more practice! I own 2 smaller scale keyboards with fewer keys that I use for midi input but this one, with 61 keys, allows me to try and get back into piano playing and not waste my parent's 5 year attempt at turning me into a piano player. Hated those piano lessons. Well, my proficient piano skills never happened but I got very good on drums and decent on guitar and have spent lots of dough on those instruments. Oh yes, I use it with Cakewalk Sonar Platinum and a very up-to-date PC with Win 10, 16 GB DDR4, and so on.

Great budget midi controller. Plug and play, instantly recognized by my music software. I like the feel of the keys and the velocity sensitivity (although if someone can tell me how to adjust that or turn it off, that would be great as there are certain situations where the sensitivity isn't needed). My second Midiplus product, and I'm impressed by them both. Can't comment on longevity as I've has it about a month, but the build quality seems to be very good.

I just received this keyboard a few hours ago; if anything new develops, I'll update my review.At the moment, this seems like an good budget MIDI controller. There are a few quirks to it, such as the typos on various parameters, and the lack of a manual, but the former is easily interpreted and the latter is available online. More egregiously, my ipad doesn't recognize this midi controller (at least in garageband). This may be an issue with my USB adapter, but I have used it successfully for midi controllers in the past. If something has a picture of an ipad screenprinted on it, you would expect it to connect better.The keys feel nice so far, and they're responsive to my velocity. The drivers installed on my PC almost instantaneously, and after selecting it as a midi device in Reaper it worked without any hassle. The parameters I've adjusted (octave and midi channel) have worked so far, though the manual is a bit difficult to decipher as to what the others do. I imagine I'll figure that out with time and experimentation.Overall, I'm happy with this purchase so far. I'm sure there are more professionally made keyboards out there, but they don't cost $85! For the price, you get a lot.EDIT: I'm still using this controller, and it is still getting by. However, a few things I've encountered since the initial review:1) some of the keys squeak A LOT. This started to happen after maybe a week of heavy use. It can be pretty dang annoying when recording yourself singing and playing at the same time.2) occasionally, random numbers flash on the display. My best guess is that I'm hitting the keys hard enough to jiggle one of the two wheels or the slider. This hasn't affected performance at all, but it doesn't bode well.3) I cannot get aftertouch to work at all. When I edit the "Aftertouch" parameter of the midi controller, it seems to just send constant aftertouch data at whatever value I set it to. This is incredibly useless, as I want to be able to add vibrato or pitch bends by pressing down the keys harder or softer after initially pressing them.It's still working for me for now, but an upgraded controller is definitely on my wishlist.

I'm a complete newbie and wanted to learn piano using this keyboard and my desktop computer. To make it work (after HOURS of searching online as to why it wasn't working), I have to uninstall the device and reinstall it every time I plug it in to my computer then use a music utility called MidiOx to connect the input to a really faint, weird output. I tried writing to support, no answer. It was supposed to be plug and play (meaning you weren't supposed to need to download drivers) but it didn't work. I downloaded a universal midi driver. What a pain.SO frustrated, so disappointed. When uninstalled and reinstalled, the device shows up on Windows 10 Device Manager. When connected up via MidiOx it plays very faintly. I have no way of figuring out what the problem is and will probably just freaking send it back.

Love this thing. The wheels work great and the keys feel really good.

I purchased this midi keyboard controller to use with a software product called Hauptwerk which results in a virtual pipe organ. My desire is to construct a fully functional 4 manual organ with pedalboard conforming to the AGO standards. However, I want the organ to be compact rather than bulky like most pipe organ consoles. This i61 from midiplus fits the bill very well. The external case can be removed so the keyboard and its electronics can be stacked with others to form a modern, attractive organ playing unit. The keyboard seems to be well made, and the keyboard has all the functionality needed for this application.

I'm a classically trained pianist/organist and needed a small, light inexpensive keyboard to take with me for jam sessions. This fits the bill perfectly. The controls are a little obtuse and getting the velocity sensitity set right is a bit goofy, but overall the controller exceeded my expectations. The action is heavy synth style and is fine for rhodes, hammond and piano sample playing.