Creative Labs Prodikeys

by Creative Labs

Product Features

• Music and PC Keyboard
• 37 touch sensitive music keys and a full featured ergonomic PC keyboard
• Connects easily with your standard PC keyboard PS/2 cable
• Quick Access keys for octave change to virtually extend the 37 keys to 109 keys
• Compatible with Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000

Product Details

Product Manual [2.21mb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 6.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00006OX5X
• Item model number: PKEYS37
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,405 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Experience the thrill of playing and creating music with ease right at your PC! The Creative Prodikeys is the world's first Music and PC Keyboard in one delivering you 37 touch sensitive music keys and a full featured ergonomic PC keyboard. This revolutionary 2 in 1 form factor gives you the wonderful convenience of expressing yourself musically at the PC hassle free. The Creative Prodikeys works with any desktop PC and connects easily with your standard PC keyboard PS/2 cable. The Prodikeys empowers anyone at any age to express and create outstanding music-even with no musical background! It's so fun and easy to use you will be expressing yourself musically in seconds!

• Learn a song quickly and easily with the Learn mode without having to learn music theory.
• One touch Fun button to launch the Creative Prodikeys(TM) application software
• One-touch button for accessing the related websites easily
• Powered directly from the PC like a full-featured ergonomic QWERTY keyboard via the PS2 port
• Performance mode allows real time performance with programmable voice setting presets.
• Record feature enables record, playback and saving in MP3 or WAV formats.
• Recording of multi-track performance is possible via multiple MIDI recordings!
• Pitch Bend wheel which is fully assignable to an octave up or down
• Volume wheel which controls the volume of playback during performance
• Quick Access keys for octave change to virtually extend the 37 keys to 109 keys
• Impress mode to easily play music and impress listeners! Coupled with matching rhythms, effects and instrumental fill-ins, this mode is a surefire hit for all users

Prodikeys can even be used as a midi controller for other software programs/synths.

Specifications

• Standard 104 keys
• IBM compatible computer keyboard
• Integrated 37 MIDI keys
• Pitch Bend and Volume Control wheels
• Fun button for starting Creative Prodikeys software
• Connects directly to computer's PS2 keyboard port

Retail Box Contents

• 1 Creative Prodikeys (Consisting of standard 104-key IBM compatible keyboard with 37 integrated MIDI keys)
• 1 Creative Prodikeys palm rest
• 1 Sound Blaster audio card
• 1 Audio cable
• 2 Software Installation CDs
• 1 Quick Start Guide

This product is protected by a one year limited hardware warranty.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice Piano Keyboard, Bad Computer Keyboard, February 4, 2004

By 

TakomaBaby "consultant" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creative Labs Prodikeys (Electronics)

This is a real cool concept and a very useful tool for a basic personal studio setup. However, it's a very frustrating computer keyboard layout. A number of the keys are located in unusual places (just one example is that the escape key is the round button you can see at the very top left -- well away from the main keyset). If you use the entire keyboard like I do (especially during music production), the unconventional layout can be VERY frustrating.

Other problem items for me are that the Internet hot keys are mapped to Creative/Prodikey pages and the only way to change this is to edit your registry directly, and the keyboard is just plain bigger than it needs to be (check the size specs before buying if you plan to use it in a keyboard drawer).

There's also this totally unexplained panel that opens on the top of the right side. I asked what this was for since it takes up so much room and Creative never responded. I'm assuming they meant to offer an optional pointing device that would fit in this spot.

Apparently, Creative listened to me and probably many others complain about all these issues, because they fixed every one in the new model (the DM). Unfortunately, I already blew $100 on this older model!

1.0 out of 5 stars Abandoned, June 24, 2011

By 

Kristy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creative Labs Prodikeys (Electronics)

I bought Prodikeys a few years ago, and I am totally disappointed.

The included software is not quite intuitive as an educational software for learning to play piano.

Worst part is that Creative Labs has stopped supporting this keyboard, and those people who upgraded their computers to a Windows 7 machine are all doomed. I have contacted Creative Labs and they said this product is no longer supported by them and they will not release a device driver for it to be used on Windows 7. How nice of them -sarcasm- to abandon their customers like this?

I will not buy another product from Creative Labs ever ever again.