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That would be so useful to hook up to another computer with editing software. Just imagine....a UMPC with the fully-functional keyboard hooked up to it. Create real music any time.

THAT would be what I would buy.]]>Apr 30th 2008 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/
"i'm guessing this is for *REAL* musicians, the kind that can actually read and write notation... with a pencil... without software"

So to be a real musician you have to use pen and paper? What a load of bollocks. I play the cello, guitar, bass guitar and a bit of piano, and have been playing music since I was 8 years old.

I'm a *REAL* musician and I use Sibelius all the time because I can't really play the piano that well, and have only ever really read music in bass clef - I can read treble but not very fluently (Have to do the whole "FACE in the Space" and "Every Green Bus Drives Fast" crap each time). Trust me, software makes composing a LOT easier.

Your claim that *real* musicians don't use software is nonsense. Not only do I use software but almost every other musician I've met has used Music software to write their scores. Music Teachers, Orchestra conductors, etc.

Now, if you had said "real musicians don't use Garageband" I would partially agree with you. Fall Out Boy (although their status as musicians will vary depending on your opinion of them) use Garageband and I'm sure various other musicians on a budget do, too. However, the large majority of Garageband users just use Apple loops, so therefore you are right in that respect.

But please don't make a daft comment like that :P It provokes responses like these :P


On the actual topic, however, this looks like a great idea. Hopefully the paper will be replaceable though because otherwise you'd end up with a keyboard in a wallet that can't do anything :P]]>Apr 30th 2008 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/
That being said the notebook is really quite sexy, I think my existing too-small-to-play-chords-portable-midi-piano is getting jealous. ]]>Apr 30th 2008 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/
Forget to use the spell-checker?]]>Apr 30th 2008 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/]]>May 1st 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/
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I guess "Brown note" was already taken.]]>Apr 30th 2008 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/]]>May 1st 2008 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/...as a colemak typist, I don't like, you know, moving things.

It's possible such software would have to be its own operating system to work correctly though... and I don't know how many keypresses most normal keyboard hardware can handle simultaneously....]]>Apr 30th 2008 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/...course, it was proprietary software, and the ramifications of that on its use made me ditch it completely.. but you get the idea. When the notes are on paper, /you/ have to play them, and really i think that's crap.]]>Apr 30th 2008 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.global.yamaha.com/design/milano_salone_2008/]]>Apr 30th 2008 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/Apr 30th 2008 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/
I will stick with my lovely Kurzweil K2600SX keyboard attached to my laptop running Sibelius.com software.

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http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/39-apple-products/]]>Apr 30th 2008 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/That site isn't clever or productive.]]>May 1st 2008 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/yahamas-notepad-keyboard-hybrid-concept-a-songwriters-dream/May 1st 2008 1:47AM