Be curious to hear from anyone who's done this and how it worked out...did you have much issue with tying in your DAW and what limitations did you encounter? I'm tossing around the idea
Yes, exactly, thanks - in fact I was looking at the DS88, but not locked in. I am concerned about how much of a pain it would be (or in some cases if even not workable?) to set up basic DAW functionality on the keyboard, mostly transport controls. PS I had looked up the controls on the DS and see it even has a "DAW Control edit" function, which is hopeful - once that's done, any idea what options you have of which hardware buttons/knobs to assign as transport controls? And can you easily go back and forth between that and their original function?Do you mean the use of a workstation as a controller for the computer DAW? And not the internal editing capabilities to make music without a computer? If so I have done successfully. When I moved out with half my stuff to a different country I preferred to bring just 1 (very light) keyboard for both my live gigs and componsition, and I left my NI Kontrol at the other home.
My live keyboard is a Roland FA-06. Lots of functionality as a controller, very light, I have a proper light case for it (useful to fly over). I only missed the aftertouch from the Kontrol. There are templates to setup the FA-06 as a controller for multiple DAWs, but it is not complex to customize. You can send multiple CC controllers, you have transport control, tempo control... it is really flexible.
Now back to normal the Kontrol is always at my desk, and the FA06 is again just a standalone instrument that goes from home to the band room practice and to live music bars.
A second hand FA-06 goes for ~650€ and is a lot better than a Juno DS61 (both 5 octaves).
The Yamaha MODX 6 that I have is a fantastic DAW controller and master keyboard. Its bigger sister, the Montage, even better since it has even more sliders and buttons and knobs (but much more expensive).Be curious to hear from anyone who's done this and how it worked out...did you have much issue with tying in your DAW and what limitations did you encounter? I'm tossing around the idea
A used mixer with 8 or so channels will also do the trick for cheap..and give you further control of levels, eq, etc.Not really a limitation per se, but if you wanted to record sounds/audio from the keyboard workstation you may need to consider the amount of inputs on your sound card. I lived quite a while with a 2 input audio interface and just swapped out the inputs to whatever was needed at the moment (I have long since upgraded to 8 inputs).
Liking that?have a Nanokontrol2 for the CC stuff
Quite a lot. The travel of the faders is quite short, but normally I need to adjust the Modulation and Expression anyhow if I'm really after details. And all the buttons come in really handy if you program them for your special needs. For example with one of them I open the Step Input Keyboard...Liking that?
Fair enough.Way more than I'd spend for a 61 key WS ($1400 USD) - I should have added that before. But appreciate the feedback!