Perhaps one of the most important features in an electronic keyboard, the input and output allows you to connect to amplifiers, mixers, and speakers and can save you from buying a separate audio interface for it.ĭepending on what sound you're going to be making, controllers are knobs, sliders, and buttons that allow you to influence the sound that you are going to create with a keyboard. Perhaps one of today's most sought-after feature in a Yamaha keyboard, a sampler allows you to record digital audio, play it back according to how you want it to sound. With an arpeggiator, you can electronically create arpeggios when playing with a single note on your keyboard. This allows you to better record, practice, and play with a sound much better than analog means.Įither hardware or software, a sequencer records MIDI performances and plays it back according to how the user wants it to sound.Īn arpeggio is a chord in which the notes are played in succession rather than all at once. Whether through MIDI, FireWire, USB, S/PDIF or mLAN, a keyboard should be able to connect to a computer. MIDI signals contain no sound but rather, a blueprint that tells the hardware what notes to play and how fast it needs to be played. MIDI or Musical Instrument Digital Interface is a protocol developed in the 80s to connect electronic instruments and computers. A keyboard with an extensive polyphonic range can mimic an entire orchestra.Ĭompared to polyphony, multitimbrality is the ability of the keyboard to play different sounds (drums, flute, violin, etc.) at the same time This feature determines the number of sounds a keyboard generates at one time. Touch sensitivity is the ability of the keyboard to sense speed and pressure of each key. Of course, the larger the number, the bigger the keyboard. Depending on how much you need, Yamaha keyboards can range from 25 to as much as 88 keys, depending on how many octaves you need.

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