Been wanting to get a few more kit videos on my YouTube channel so here we go, starting 2021 off as I mean to go on! I was fascinated by the CME Xkey when I first saw it and it’s been a really fun part of my setup since getting one. Great for taking out on the road, it’s touch sensitive, transmits aftertouch and lets you add sustain and expression pedals – not bad for such a tiny piece of kit! It takes some getting used to but has been really valuable for quickly getting ideas down when I’m not in the studio. The video above is a quick test on the level of the expressiveness using one of my favourite piano sounds and I think it performed pretty well.
More music kit demos:
Finding The Mechanism
On International Women's Day this year, I excitedly posted the Turing-style reaction-diffusion equation pictured here, that produced wonderful filaments in tests and looked promising in toy runs against other known tensions. However, once I started digging down into...
FANFIC – Project Hail Mary
Ever since setting up my music website many years ago, I've always tried to keep my other projects seperate. However, all of that has changed with an accidental excursion into cosmology that has ended up bringing my various passions together. My composing will...
8 Favourite Virtual Pianos
Happy Piano Day 2025! I’ve played a lot of pianos over the years, real and virtual and I’ve had a few different favourites, depending on what project I was working on. These are the virtual ones that I currently have installed for various musical uses, including...
