"Interesting. Is Ion Audio the same company as Akai Pro? Their Discovery keyboard looks exactly like Akai's LPK25"
synthesia, Ion Audio seems to be some kind of consumer-oriented company that distributes music/audio products to that market in some sort of marketing/licensing agreements with mainstream music companies that want to reach that market without diluting their brand names.
The iPhone App Store does not currently have any Akai music apps so the the keyboard probably is from Akai (which is very pro). I know Ion Audio also has a number of products that are clearly based on Alesis technology.
If Akai is providing the underlying software and hardware for this puppy it could possibly be a decent instrument despite the ever ready condemnation of the non-musician peanut gallery— or, it could be junk. But wouldn't it be nice if people could wait to learn more before just blurting out uninformed opinions?
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"Interesting. Is Ion Audio the same company as Akai Pro? Their Discovery keyboard looks exactly like Akai's LPK25"
synthesia, Ion Audio seems to be some kind of consumer-oriented company that distributes music/audio products to that market in some sort of marketing/licensing agreements with mainstream music companies that want to reach that market without diluting their brand names.
The iPhone App Store does not currently have any Akai music apps so the the keyboard probably is from Akai (which is very pro). I know Ion Audio also has a number of products that are clearly based on Alesis technology.
If Akai is providing the underlying software and hardware for this puppy it could possibly be a decent instrument despite the ever ready condemnation of the non-musician peanut gallery— or, it could be junk. But wouldn't it be nice if people could wait to learn more before just blurting out uninformed opinions?
Yes, yes it would.