Customer Reviews

M-Audio E-Keys 37 MIDI Keyboard

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The main drawback of this is its main asset: It is tiny. It fits nicely under my 17" iMac, and allows me to play with GarageBand, which is all I really wanted. For about $100 you can get a proper, full-size, midi/usb keyboard, which if I were at all serious would be the thing to get. But as a toy (for an adult or child), this is acceptable. Beware that the keys are so small that they are narrower than my fingers (which are not that fat) in diameter! It is a child-size keyboard really. I ordered this on Sunday evening and had standard shipping and it arrived 10am Wednesday. It works on Apple without external software; for PCs it comes with a CD. It seems to work fine.

Please note that this is not a stand-alone keyboard. To use it, you need the computer, and the sounds produced are synthesized by the computer software (such as GarageBand).

This is a perfectly functional MIDI controller. It's not velocity sensitive, but for many applications this doesn't matter. There is also no built-in capability to shift octaves, but depending what you're using it for this might not be a huge issue either.

The problem with this keyboard is that it's just too small. Yes, the description describes them as "mini keys." But I've used other keyboards that claim "mini keys" that were significantly larger than these. I found it nearly impossible on this keyboard to hit a single key; the keys are just barely as wide as my fingers.

I knew when I saw the box that I had made a horrible mistake. This item is obviously intended almost solely for children. It's actually perfect for children; but the description doesn't make this particularly clear.

If you're looking for a quasi-functional MIDI controller on the cheap for adult use, look elsewhere. This might work for playing simple beats, but for actually playing melodies you'll just find yourself frustrated.

Im not a professional keyboard player. I bought this keyboard to have something to play around in with reason and Guitar Pro. It suits those needs great. Its detects right away and withing minutes you will be playing.

The keyboard itself is extremly small reminds me of a kids toy keyboard. If your looking for something more professional you will probably have to fork out the $100 bucks and get the bigger model.

My son ordered this to add to his music program. He is 12. He was disappointed that the key board keys were too small and that there was a significant delay before you could hear the note. Overall, the quality of the keyboard did not match the description for which my son based his order.

I was disappointed that this keyboard does not register key velocity. Other than that, it is fine for what it is. IF all you need to do is trigger sounds, then this is a good travel keyboard.

My ring finger is a size 3, and these keys were too small for my fingers! I ended up shelling out the $180 for the M-Audio Axiom 25, and returned the ekeys. Definitely not for adults due to its toddler size.

This product does exactly what I hoped it would do. I only use it for inputting chords on leadsheets when using Finale. It's also great that it doesn't take up a lot of space.

When I saw everyone compaining about the size-I thought it was all greatly exaggerated.

Trust me when I say this though-when I got this thing in the mail today-I put it next to my 18 inch ruler, it's barely half an inch larger. All the keys are crammed into this space-so just imagine for a moment if you could how small that is (especially the black keys!).

Reason I didn't completely 1 this is it's still a nice sleek, design and at least operational.

These are literally for babyfingers-I think my cat could play this one (would love if he could!) I want to return/resell this one-meanwhile I've invested in a 79 dollars M-AUDIO Keyrig 25, which is just excellent-with full sized keys and serves the purpose I wanted this one to-portable instrument for my laptop.

El producto es muy pequeño y no sirve para producir al nivel que yo lo quiero hacer...Creo que este controlador es mas para niños y para que ellos jueguen...Inclusive en la caja salen dibujos de niños...

Purchased this keyboard for my middle school grandson. He is just now taking music in school and shows a real interest. Therefore this seemed to be a good beginning keyboard for the price. It came with 3 software packages. The one is for preschool or younger and works. The other is for someone who knows a lot about keyboards and how to apply them in a computer environment. He was so excited! But the one piece of software that I needed - Music Teacher 3.0 by Evolution will not work on any of our 3 computers. I have spent days trying to locate a patch that would make it 'backwards' compatible. The manuals say it is an easy fix to just go to their website and download the patch. However, Evolution's website bounces you to M-Audio's website and then you end up in a website for AVID. None of which has a patch for this software. I have emailed but no response so I will be sending this item back. We are very disappointed.