Thanks Magica Alfa

I saw this yesterday and thought it was freaking awesome, very powerful and super smooth. I really do think that the future of all keyboards will be OPEN platforms and that it's happening NOW. There are only 4 companies in the world producing instruments like this. Muse Research, SMPro Audio, Open Labs and Lionstracs.

Muse Research and SM Pro Audio products are not true open systems. You cannot install whatever you want on them because they need compatibility added or in the case of SMPro, you need Wizard files. Writing your own is next to impossible unless you totally throw yourself at it and are extremely technically minded.

So really you only have Open Labs and Lionstracs offering true open keyboards right now. The Open Labs systems are slick for sure but this is their 5th Generation and you don't exactly get value for money. To get a Neko with all the controllers on board will cost you dearly.

The new Lionstracs keyboards on the other hand are much better priced and they come with the dedicated controllers. Being Linux based you also have that Multi Host which Open Labs don't. So technically this has all the makings of a being success.

Interesting times ahead for sure. I know for sure that I will never buy a closed keyboard every again.

Regards
James

[This message has been edited by Irishacts (edited 12-29-2009).]