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It’s a good re-use of hardware, but not a true midi controller. The pcb was gutted from an old keyboard, and the pedals were scored from a mad 60 mile tour of the local radio shacks clearance bin.

[Marwan] had just such a keyboard, and wanted to use it with their PC, but the low-end instrumented lacked MIDI. Of course, such functionality is but a simple hack away. The hack involved opening ...

Not so much. That’s what you get with the Carry-on, though - a folding piano/MIDI keyboard that’s been made with the help of Blackstar Amplification (not the company’s usual kind of product, it has to ...