basic keyboard questions

Discussion in 'alt.music.synth' started by rtdavide@yahoo.com, Jul 12, 2005.

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    OK, these are probably easy questions, but I haven't had much success
    in getting answers just trying to research it on my own.
    Coming from a guitar background, I used to play the piano a little, and
    I just bought a Roland JV-90 from a friend I used to play with. So I am
    starting to get into playing some keys.

    I see several different types of keyboards listed in, let's say, a
    Music 123 Catalog: Workstations, Controllers, Synthesizers...... what
    is the difference?

    I would like to plug the JV-90 into the computer via a midi cable and
    use it in Cakewalk Music Creator. Will the JV-90 do this? Or is it too
    old?
    I got the manual for the thing, but quite frankly it's a little
    difficult to understand whether it does this or not.
    As the software seems to advertise, one should be able to access a
    world of different sounds by using the computer, but again I don't
    know if the JV-90 will do this or not. Is that what a Controller is
    for?

    Perhaps there is a website that explains a lot of this already, but I
    am too ignorant of even the terms I should be looking up to find
    them..... referrals?


    Thanks for any input.

    dave
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