Miditech Pianobox mini II

MIDI kontroller billentyűzethez kerestem hangmodult. Arra az esetre amikor az 5 oktávos workstation helyett 7 oktávos zongorabillentyűzetre van szükség. Énekes, szólista kíséretre, vagy zenekarban való játékra élethű hangú megoldást. Legyen egyszerű, könnyen szállítható és gyorsan hadra fogható, emellett bármilyen más õsszeállításba is jól beilleszthető. A Pianobox mini ll igazán baráti áron teljesíti ezeket a követelményeket. A 128 professzionális hangszer pénztárca méretű fémdobozban a zsebemben is elfér. Egy akkumulátoros erősítőre kötve akár az utcán is zenélhetek, mert a Pianobox is tartalmaz akkut ami ráadásként a billentyűzetet is ellátja energiával. Kedvező ára, kis mérete ellenére jó minőségű hangokat tud, sokoldalú és könnyen kezelhetõ. Nincsenek felesleges gombok, tekerentyűk, az alapvetõ beállítások MIDI-ből (is) vezérelhetõk. 3 beállítás elmenthető, majd egy gombnyomásra előhívható, de bármikor felülírható. Még nem próbáltam, de PC alkalmazásokhoz is használható. Jó tudni, hogy ez a kis "méregzsák" itt van a dobozában és bármikor a segítségemre lesz.

I have an M-Audio 88 Hammer Midi keyboard. When my digital piano stopped working and proved to be un-repairable I decided to turn my M-Audio into a stand alone piano rather than connect it to a computer or buy a new digital piano. To this end I searched for piano modules and finally settled on the miditech piano mini ii as being the right one. The price is right and it does all I need it to do apart from have a built in metronome for when I am using headphones. So I ordered the Piano mini ii. Purchase and delivery all great. The actual module itself is well built and sounds great. Getting to understand the set up and what the screen was telling me was a little confusing at first as the instructions aren't brilliant but it only took 10 minutes to figure it out. The only problem I have had came when I plugged my keyboard into the USB port of the module. It didn't work. Hitting any of the keys produced no sound and the midi activity lights on the module did not flash. The keyboard was getting power from the module as the keyboard lights came up but no midi activity. I have a little 25 key midi keyboard, so I plugged that in and it worked fine immediately. Lights, sound, action! So I tried plugging my keyboard into it's own power supply and then connected the 5 pin midi out socket of the keyboard to the midi in five pin to 3.6mm jack converter cable that comes with the piano mini and plugged that into the midi in jack on the piano mini. It worked a treat. Everything started working fine. I checked the miditech.de website and found in the FAQ's that the USB port on the piano mini will only work with keyboards with a low power consumption. If the keyboard connected requires more power than the USB can supply then you won't get any sound, even if the keyboard shows that it is powered up. I cured the metronome issue by buying a small cheap audio mixer so that I can use a metronome I already have and just mix it with the output of the piano mini so I can hear both over the same pair of headphones. All in all a great little device that now does everything I want. Thanks for the great service.

I bought this so I can play with headphones on my old Casio digital piano (which has so bad headphone sound that it's unusable).
The device works for this purpose. It has a couple of grand piano instrument sounds. They sound passable but not great, definitely worse than my pianos own grand piano instrument sounds over the speaker. In particular the bass is too loud in my opinion.
The user interface is very minimal: select instrument, volume and a couple of adjustment parameters as numbera. It would be nice to see tha names of the instruments. I could not find anywhere even a list of what number corresponds to what instrument.
Note! You need to buy a separate MIDI interconnect cable, the supplied cable does not directly fit to MIDI out of a keyboard (at least not mine).