Woohoo! My new Casio PX130 portable piano keyboard arrived, and I immediately warmed up the printer for some sheet music to try out on it. One of the first pieces I sight-read on the keyboard was Rob D's "Clubbed to Death" from the Matrix soundtrack. It proved an unusually good test, as 1) it is simple enough for me to get down in a day or so and 2) it has THREE parts, which allowed me to test out the keyboard's two-track recording-with-playback capabilities (not to mention figure out how to nest videos inside each other in Premiere). The ability to play a duet with myself is particularly intriguing - my next project may have to be The Sorcerer's Apprentice for four hands! I also took the opportunity to figure out how to record directly from the keyboard to the computer, so the sound is not actually from the camcorder, but the MIDI file which was generated on the desktop. The MIDI sounds a little more like a toy than the keyboard, and the keyboard sounds slightly more like a toy than a real piano, but considering the uses I'm actually putting the thing to, I find myself pretty satisfied with the results. I've been a sort of snob about digital keyboards up until now as, of course, they don't feel like real pianos at all, and what's the point of polishing pieces on something that doesn't play like one? But now that I am learning new pieces again, I figured out that it is far preferable to practice my fingering (by far the longest time spent at a piano) while at my computer ...
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