USB Piano Keyboard: Makes it Easy to Use With Computer

A USB Piano Keyboard comes with a USB slot which makes it easy to make the connection between the keyboard and the computer, so that you can work with the various music software programs.

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1 Why USB?

2 A Typical Connection

3 To Conclude

4 Related Posts:

Why USB?

Before USB became popular, the way to connect a keyboard to a computer was through the midi jacks/slots.

You would usually find the MIDI-IN, MIDI-Out and the MIDI-Thru jacks on most earlier keyboards, and the cable had to be connected from those slots to the midi slots on the soundcard of your computer. Now with USB becoming popular, this method of connection is seen as outdated by many, though it is not difficult to connect using the old method.

A USB Piano Keyboard on the other hand has a USB connection jack/slot, just as the way you have on a computer, which makes it much easier to make the connection.

A Typical Connection

Though a USB piano keyboard makes it easy to do the connection, musicians want the ability to record other music instruments as well.

So say for instance if a guitarist wants an usb piano to work with software like garageband; how can he/she plug the guitar as well into the macbook and record the guitar in garageband?

For this, you would typically need another equipment known as Audio Interface!

There are a couple of options here:

All in One USB Piano
First one is to go in for a USB piano keyboard that has the features of an audio interface. So it should have slots to connect instrument sounds, the typical 1/4” instrument input and may be a XLR mic input to record vocals.

Buy it Separately
The second option which most musicians prefer is to buy a USB midi keyboard and an audio interface separately.

The audio interface usually has a 1/4” instrument input to record guitar, bass and keyboards. In addition it also has a phantom powered XLR mic input to connect dynamic and studio-grade condenser microphones.

To Conclude

A USB Piano Keyboard makes it much easier to connect to a computer, especially useful for most beginners. Even otherwise, USB is new school technology and you will see more of USB on most recent digital equipment. So get hold of your USB piano keyboard today!

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