MIDI instruments aren't just keyboards anymore. J. Anthony Allen shows how controllers come in dozens of shapes: wind controllers, guitars, pads, and synth units. Pick one that matches what you already play, not what looks familiar.
So if we Skip ahead about 50 years or so, MIDI instruments have come a long way. We really use the term generally to talk about any kind of keyboard or controller that's talking back and forth to the computer. It could be a synthesizer or it could just be a controller. So you can see that a lot of MIDI instruments look like pianos, right? They have a keyboard that looks like a piano, but they don't all do. And they don't have to look like a piano. There's no real reason for it other than most people know how a piano works. That's why they tend to look like a piano. But you know, if we look at something like something like this. This is called a wind controller. That's a MIDI instrument that kind of looks like a clarinet. We got this one, this is kind of a. Some kind of guitar shaped thing. This one looks like a hockey puck. And it's basically a MIDI instrument. You've got these big ones that look like old Moog synthesizers. Got these that have like a couple sort of keys and a bunch of knobs. This one is just pads. Look at this crazy thing and that crazy thing, right? Like, there's no reason that it needs to look like a keyboard. There's tons of different MIDI controllers now. And you can really find them that emulate anything that you already know how to play. So if you know how to play a clarinet, don't buy a MIDI keyboard, buy a mini clarinet. You can totally do that. There's a MIDI version of pretty much any instrument you can imagine. Let's talk just a little bit about one of my favorite MIDI guitars.
