MIDI is cool, but it can also be a bit of a dense subject – so, for those newly blessed with a MIDI keyboard or controller, ...

Let's start with the barest of bare-bones options for your digital setup. The Nektar SE25 is a great, inexpensive, entry-level MIDI controller and arguably the best budget controller out there.

Wave is a wearable Bluetooth ring that translates your hand motions into MIDI signals. It starts at $149 if you’re willing to fund it on Indiegogo. Now all your hand motions can be MIDI signals.

For advanced users, the setup with puc+ gets really interesting when you send your iPad MIDI out to Logic, allowing you to control your iPad synths with your MIDI controller and simultaneously ...

A USB MIDI controller is the perfect foil for your computer-based DAW setup - just plug it in and you should be good to go - but what if you want to use it with your hardware synths and it doesn’t ...

While the “M” in MIDI stands for “musical”, it’s possible to use this standard for other things as well. [s-ol] has been working on a VJ setup (mixing video instead of… ...

For those reasons alone, it fit perfectly into my setup, but the reason I dropped $130 (MSRP of $150) on it a week before a show is Arturia's dead simple sequencer.

From MIDI keyboards and drum pads to all-in-one samplers and sequencers, we've found the best electronic instruments for ...

If you’re running a hybrid setup with both hardware and software, you might want to consider either a dedicated controller for your DAW or the Novation 49SL MkIII.

This diagram is for a live performance setup, where a laptop is responsible for playing backing tracks, sending MIDI information to hardware synths, and receiving its own MIDI information from a ...