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Creative Prodikeys Pc-midi | 
 enlarge | Brand: Creative Labs
Category: CE
List Price: $74.88
Buy New: $32.99
You Save: $41.89 (56%)
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 3681
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7
Dimensions (in): 10 x 4 x 7
MPN: 70CF004000010
Model: 70CF004000010
UPC: 054651122116
EAN: 0054651122116
ASIN: B000E3E888
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 37 touch-sensitive music keys | | • | Snap-on color faceplate | | • | Removable palm rest | | • | Enhanced Function keys | | • | Media playback buttons |
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Product Description
Creative Prodikeys PC-MIDI is a multi-function USB-compatible keyboard that lets you do more with your computer. Its software suite allows you to customize the hotkeys as well as explore music with your imagination. The standard keyboard features programmable hotkeys, enhanced Function-keys, media playback and volume control wheel. There are also 37 music keys under a removable wrist rest; each music key provides realistic audio response.Seamlessly combining the functions of a computer and music keyboard, the Prodikeys PC-MIDI showcases avant-garde design - with 37 mini-sized music keys ingeniously hidden under the detachable palm rest/cover.Easily perform, record, and create your own music with the extensive software suite. Novice users who want to learn and create music can make use of the easy-to-use software applications: EasyNotes & FunMix, You can use Mini Keyboard to experiment with more than a hundred different instrument sounds - including piano, flute, guitar and even drums!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Great concept, poor execution. November 13, 2008
Christopher C. Mulkey (Denton, TX USA)
For the price, I was happy with the quality of construction.
No where in the product specifications does Creative claim that it'll work with Windows Vista or MacOS X, and it certainly doesn't work with either; but it's almost 2009! They need to get their act together and write drivers for modern operating systems. (Most PC manufacturers aren't even shipping computers with XP anymore!)
If you've got XP, it's a fun device, and it works well with the software provided by Creative. It's been a little flaky for me when I try to use it as a MIDI device in more advanced, third-party software (like Reason), but that's usually cured with a reboot.
If Creative wrote MacOS X drivers, this thing would be fantastic with GarageBand... but alas, they do not (and as far as I can tell, based on the forums on their website, they do not intend to).
 Great keyboard, lots of fun! October 23, 2008
M. V. Vooren (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just received my keyboard, and the fun started right out of the box, and once the USB plugged into my computer. Actually, it also works with a laptop, which is not mentioned in the description. The few fun things I did by now are: just play and record something, then save it. Explore different instrument sounds. Use my score writing softwares (ScoreWriter and Finale) to pull saved midi files into a new score sheet, and that works great! Play the keyboard directly in Finale, and see it type the notes in as I play, now that is cool, too!
The only thing I would criticise is the absense of a manual. Oh well, there is a Help file on the CD, and basically, one can't break much, so experimenting around when not sure what to do or how is not a problem at all.
For folks who play an instrument and want to have some fun while at work, or at home, this keyboard is IT! When the keyboard is not in use, the plastic cover doubles up as a very convenient wrist rest for the computer part of the keyboard.
For the price it costs: go for it! You'll never regret it!
Oh yes, and one more thing: for those of you who bought it and feel that the keys are not "so" responsive: well yes, you did not really expect to get a Steinway for 49 bucks, did ya? So, the keys are plastic, but I find they are more than satisfactory. Unless you seriously planned on using this little fun device for giving a piano recital... oh well, good luck, lol! (tongue in cheek!)
 Great Deal October 23, 2008
Trinity M. Martin (Indiana)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent and affordable tool for learning piano and even writing music. I am doing both at the moment, and this keyboard is ridiculously easy to set up and use.
Everything is user friendly, from install to use of the included music programs, so you will be up and running and making music literally within minutes of opening the box.
The typing keyboard is good, although the shift button sticks occasionally. The keys do not depress as deeply as in a normal typing keyboar, but they are not as shallow as a laptop. The prodikeys keys are somewhere between the two, but it feels fine.
The music keyboard plays well too, surprisingly well. The key's themselves are smaller than normal keyboards, but if you are just starting out that is not a big deal. They are not overly small to the point where it becomes a problem. The pressure sensitivity of the keys is nice too, especially for a keyboard priced so low.
when the music keyboard is covered, the cover acts as a wrist guard, and everything feels natural to the point you almost forget there is a little piano under your wrists.
overall, i am VERY pleased and would recommend this to anyone
 No VISTA support August 16, 2008
nathan (Singapore)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Gosh this would be a really cool product -- except that it doesn't work with the Vista operating system and, guess what, Microsoft considers XP to be "end of life"! Come on, Creative, if you are not going to support your current products under the current Windows operating system -- well, that's pretty bad.
Awesome Little Tool July 1, 2008
William F. Houser (Hannibal, MO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just what it says it is, great little midi keyboard and excellent typing keyboard. Well worth the money.
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