Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Greetings,

I am also new on this list, having recently purchased a Mopho.

The short answer to your question is that yes, you are correct. At simplest, there are even 
cables that have MIDI IN and MIDI OUT at one end and USB at the other (e.g. E-MU MIDI 
1X1).

The Axiom seems to be a fine keyboard controller. I would gently suggest getting a 49 
key version because 25 keys is rarely enough. I would also compare some of the Novation 
keyboards (because or personal experience/bias). 

One warning about all of these keyboards, though, is that they are very easy to set up so 
that their knobs send CC MIDI commands, which works great with most soft synths, but 
they are not so great with NRPN MIDI commands, which is what is necessary for most of 
the parameters in many hardware synths, including the Mopho (and probably the Evolver). 
However, this will not hinder using the device to transmit messages between the editor 
software and your Evolver.

If you are also planning to buy an audio interface to use with your computer, though, 
consider that most have MIDI IN/OUT, meaning that you could get away with a keyboard 
controller that does not have MIDI IN. 

Aaron




--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "spectralhelix" <spectralhelix@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings all!
> 
> (Almost) total noob here, I recently got my Evolver desktop and now am 
> looking at controller keyboards for it.
> 
> All of the £50-70 controllers (Oxygen, Behringer) have only a MIDI out -
>  I figured if I got one with both MIDI in and out I can use it the link 
> between the Evolver and the sound editor software, so the PC can talk 
> to Evolver and Evolver can talk back.
> 
> This is the M-Audio controller I'm thinking of:
> http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Axiom25.html
> 
> The manual is here:
> http://www.m-audio.com/images/global/manuals/060801_Axiom_UG_EN01.pdf
> 
> I'd really appreciate if someone could advise me if I'm correct in my 
> thinking on this. Thanks all of you for creating a great forum!
>