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Alesis Photon X25 USB/MIDI Keyboard with Audio

Alesis Photon X25 USB/MIDI Keyboard with Audio

The Photon X25 is a USB MIDI controller and audio interface featuring the revolutionary Axyz controller dome for 3D control over audio effects and virtual instruments. It offers complete MIDI control with 10 360-degree endless knobs, 10 buttons, and 3 active layers for over 60 immediately-accessible controls.

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Item Code: ALEPHOTONX25

Alesis Photon X25 USB/MIDI Keyboard with Audio Reviews

Alesis Photon X25 USB/MIDI Keyboard with Audio Sample Review

Feature:
It is a great MIDI keyboard, lots of controls and knobs but be ware: It LACKS DATA FEEDBACK even if they are 360 degree endless!!! This means your keyboard is not going to read the soft synth's preset values and adjust the knobs values to that. This is a big problem with all the MIDI controllers. It may work fine if you are using it for one instrument only, but in a DAW, constantly jumping from track to track, from preset to preset it becomes pretty frustrating. The only units that support data feedback by today are Behringer BCF/BCA2000 and Mackie Control Surface, but they lack a keyboard and audio.

Quality:
Good quality

Desirability:
Not really.

Sound:
DO NOT BUY X25 FOR ITS AUDIO!!! While it may work fine in standalone mode with one soft synth, it becomes totally unusable in DAW because it lacks an ASIO control pannel that provides you with latency control. This means if you put a couple of synths and effects your DAW is dead because of a too small latency you can't change!

Support:
Mine came without a cable, but I returned it anyways.

Overall:
Great MIDI controller with audio.... on paper. In real pro life it becomes just a great illuminated xmas decoration for your studio. Alesis needs to work out REAL ASIO2 drivers and make the unit read the feedback values.

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