Many super-cheap keyboards compensate for their lack of weighting by being excessively springy and resistive - which really gets on my nerves - but this one’s just this side of too springy. Key action: there’s no weighting of course, but velocity isn’t too difficult to max out, and expression is just about possible on the low-velocity end. You can therefore connect it (via a MIDI cable) to your synth module, but power it via a USB A->B cable from either a phone charger or a computer. The choice of USB or DC power to this unit does not affect which ports it sends MIDI to. This is false - the unit is hardwired to one polarity - so be sure you either pick the correct sustain pedal to use with this, or pick one with a polarity switch. The implication here is that the unit will detect the pedal’s polarity at startup on the assumption that it’s up, and is therefore compatible with any sustain pedal. Solution: With the pedal plugged in, turn the unit’s power off, wait a moment, and turn it on again. There’s also a troubleshooting tip that implies another lie:Ĭause: Sustain pedal was plugged in after power was turned on. The only benefit of having a physical port is that you can rewire your setup to play the synth module directly if you want to cut the computer out of the loop for some reason. For a setup like this, the Q49’s physical MIDI port is basically useless.
#Alesis q49 review software
So: if you want to use an external synth module in a DAW setup with this unit, the only way is a USB hookup to the computer, a physical MIDI hookup from the computer to the synth module, and DAW software that will relay MIDI from the Q49’s MIDI-in device to the synth module, hopefully with tolerably low latency. With regards to your previous message, unfortunately this is not something you can carry out on the Q49. I’m sorry to hear that you’re experiencing issues when trying to send MIDI out via the Q49. I contacted Alesis support, and this is what I got back: Do not be fooled by the fact that the Q49 exposes a MIDI-out device over the USB connection! This device does nothing as far as I know, and it certainly does not relay MIDI to the physical port. USB connection - …This connection is used to send and receive MIDI data to and from your computer and may also be used to send MIDI data from your computer to a device attached to the MIDI OUT port of the Q49.
#Alesis q49 review manual
The quickstart manual contains an important lie: Sadly, this didn’t quite work out the way I hoped. The aim was to retain most of my musical options while travelling. After years of using combined keyboard synthesisers like the Roland D-70 and Yamaha S90ES, I bought a Q49 to go with my external MIDI synth module.
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