MAudio Radium 61-Key USB Controller

by M-Audio

Product Features

• Radium is also a USB MIDI interface that speaks directly with your computer without any extra devices.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 10 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 10 pounds
• ASIN: B0002D0KW8
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,971 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

Radium is a new breed of controller. Designed to meet the needs of today?s electronic musicians, Radium puts you in control of any 16 MIDI-assignable parameters within your favorite software programs. Radium is also a USB MIDI interface that speaks directly with your computer without any extra devices. You don?t need a separate MIDI interface for this keyboard -- it IS the MIDI interface.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Just OK, July 12, 2005

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Czernobog - See all my reviews

This review is from: MAudio Radium 61-Key USB Controller

The M-Audio Radium61 is an OK starter controller. If you are used to 80's keyboards with no weighted or semi-weighted action, this controller, though a bit "springy", will feel fimiliar. The "springy-ness" doesn't lend it's self to subtle, delicate playing - at all. I bought the Raduim61 at the same time I bought Propellerheads Reason, and cost was a slight factor in that decision. I was looking at this and the more expensive Navation ReMOTE 61 (semi-weighted, 64 user & 50 factory presets [many of which are specificaly for Reason] - not 16 like this model) In Reason I was using the Rhodes, Hammond and Wurlitzer models. The Radium61 just wasn't cutting it. After a month I went back and bought the Navation. For synth pop and pads this would be a good unit, but for just about anything else, get a weighted or semi-weighted controller like the M-Audio Keystation 61 (cheaper than the Radium61 and without the knobs and sliders) or the Navation ReMOTE 61 (which I highly recommend).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars XP users beware, February 12, 2006

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gizmophile (Richmond CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MAudio Radium 61-Key USB Controller

Solidly built keyboard at a good price, ($150 new) but I was unable to get Windows XP to recognize it, even after much effort, and so took it back to store for refund.

I did get it working on my Mac, but there, only after installation of rather quirky driver software.

I agree that the keys are "springy" and it might be hard to play this keyboard with much delicacy.

Got hardly any response from M-Audo when I e-mailed them for help.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for music input, December 20, 2006

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Bob Jones "Composer NYC" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MAudio Radium 61-Key USB Controller

I use this keyboard exclusively to input music into music engraving programs. It works remarkably well on a Mac for this purpose. I wouldn't recommend it, however, to play music or to practice; it is best used as a midi interface.