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MK-249C MIDI keyboard recording


We went yesterday for car boot in Shootash and the weather was fine.  There were only few people
around and we saw a group of Filipino as well and greeted each other Mabuhay!  Now, as we roam around I saw a keyboard and it caught my interest.  I went and investigate and to my surprise it was a MIDI keyboard.  Not that I need it but I desperately want it coz I haven’t got the chance to try and play around with a MIDI keyboard before.  I saw them on the tele, YouTube, magazines and have read from some reviews but not actually fiddle around with one. 

It was M-Audio Keyrig 49 or otherwise known as Evolution MK-249C MIDI keyboard and being sold for £25.  It’s a good bargain, right?  So, I enquire if it fully functional and what are the accessories that comes with it.  The man said “yes it fully functional, my son owns it, we’re just moving house that’s why we are disposing some of our stuff and the keyboard comes with this USB cable and an adaptor.”  I ask again, why does it need an adaptor, isn’t
USB bus powered?  He replied “yes it is bus powered, but you can also use it with an external power supply”.  I negotiated for £15 pound and he said “£20, last offer, coz if not I’m going to put this on ebay.”  Then, I bought it for £20. 

When I arrived home, I browse the net for reviews, description, manual, etc. on how to go about with this M-Audio Keyrig 49 and found a lot of helpful insights although some are not like they said the
software that comes with it is useless or it’s like a toy.  I wasn’t discouraged yet coz I haven’t plugged
it.  To my surprise, it is plug n’ play.  Lucky enough for me, I have installed in my Laptop a software called Mixcraft 4 and it has virtual instruments as MIDI and there it is M-Audio Keyrig 49 works and it’s brilliant.  Pretty soon I will post videos or perhaps compose and record songs using this toy M-Audio Keyrig 49

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