How useful is midi controller?

[xhevahir]

I’m trying out the ezkeys demo and watching the videos and nowhere can I find out just what I can do with a midi controller; to the extent that the videos touch on inputting chords at all, they seem to emphasize the chord wheel, which doesn’t interest me much. With a controller, am I limited to playing through the piano samples and watching the name of the chord I’ve played flash on the screen? Can I record a chord progression with it? Can I choose a figure or style and have ezkeys render the chords I’m playing in real time, like with an arranger keyboard?

Thanks in advance.

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[John]

Hi,

and thank you for your interest in EZkeys.
It’s not a real-time arranger in that way, no.
You can record chords with your MIDI controller, either in small parts and join them; or just hit record and play through your song.
Afterwards, you can quantise, change the recorded chords and inversion with the Chord wheel, cut, paste, duplicate and also apply a playing style from a MIDI file in your Browser to the selected part on your Song Track. This means you can just lay down simple chords and then apply a more advanced playing style that you find and like in your MIDI Browser.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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