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Reviewed in Germany on March 5, 2025
Doesn’t come with a power cable? Seriously?
Jon Gage
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2024
It really does feel almost exactly like my baby grand piano. The weighted keys are also graded, meaning that the lower keys are heavier to the touch and the higher keys are lighter to the touch, just like a real piano. I can run a MIDI cable to my Yamaha MX49, so no computer needed if I don't have access to one for whatever reason.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2024
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Peter
Reviewed in Germany on January 31, 2024
This product was really had to setup with my Daw.Both logic pro and studio one.
R. Otte
Reviewed in Germany on January 26, 2024
Die Funktionsvielfalt ist schon beachtlicht, es funktioniert vieles auf Anhieb "Out of the Box". Man sollte aber bei allen Midi Sachen, wissen was man tut, das ist kein Plug and Play. Dafür braucht man dann nicht die Pro Variante. Die Transportfunktionen sind ein Segen, kein Mausgeschubse mehr, Record drücken und los geht es die freien Tasten belege ich mit unterschiedlichen Sounds und der Spaß nimmt kein Ende. Alles ist sehr wertig gebaut, Tastatur macht Geräusche, ja ist ja auch ne Hammermechanik.Für die Leute die Ihren Workflow verbessern wollen eine lohnenswerte Anschaffung.
Natompt
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2023
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Arnrai Banks
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023
Like it’s feel and ease of use with software
Bob B.
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2023
If you watch YouTube reviews or read online reviews, you'll see consistently positive feedback on this keyboard. It's all true, very good quality keyboard. Great feel and great sensitivity for MIDI recording. Solid puchase.
Anonimo143
Reviewed in Italy on August 4, 2022
La tastiera è davvero buona per il suo prezzo. Inoltre viene con un bundle di numerosi software per music production che sono ottimi, soprattutto per principianti. Premettendo che suono il pianoforte da davvero tanti anni, posso dire che l'Hammer 88 Pro dà una capacità di espressione molto elevata con un tocco molto leggero (che è il mio tocco, infatti non sopporto tastiere, così come pianoforti, dai tasti troppo "duri"). Tuttavia non bisogna sicuramente aspettarsi la stessa risposta al tocco di un pianoforte: mi spiego meglio, il pianoforte ha una curva di risposta (velocity) più "organica". Ovvero, se premo il tasto molto piano il pianoforte non produce alcun suono perché il martelletto si appoggia alle corde senza colpirle e quindi senza farle vibrare. Questo non accade nella tastiera che potenzialmente ha una velocity che va da 1 a 127 ma il range veramente suonabile è da circa 50-60 a 127. Questo perché per suonare ad una velocity molto bassa (sotto i 40-50) serve un tocco talmente leggero da essere sicuramente irrealistico e incontrollabile. Tuttavia il range 50-127 è più che sufficiente per dare l'impressione di un'espressione molto ampia sui VSTs che uso. Una cosa che invece NON ho assolutamente apprezzato è la risposta dei faders. Il motivo principale per cui ho acquistato questa tastiera è proprio perché fornita di pads e faders che sarebbero stati molto comodi, soprattutto per controllare CC Midi come dynamics, expressions (ecc.) delle librerie orchestrali. Tuttavia i faders hanno una risposta estremamente imprecisa e a scatti durante il movimento. Se si alzano e si abbassano a velocità molto bassa hanno una risposta pressoché uniforme. Ma se si muovono più velocemente ognuno di essi inizia a creare degli scalini nell'automazione che rendono il suono davvero tremendo (a scatti). La rotellina principale del volume/dynamics (di fianco alla rotella del pitch) sembra davvero più uniforme dei faders ma è solo 1. E inoltre anche quella ha una zona morta intorno alla velocity 64 che crea un vero e proprio buco se mossa dal basso all'alto.
Mark S
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2021
I love the Hammer 88 Pro. It's a great keyboard / midi controllerAction on the keys is awesome.Took quite a long time to finally get someone to answer my technical support question but once I had that problem resolved I was golden.All the software that comes with the keyboard is great.
Marco A
Reviewed in Italy on May 8, 2021
Credo che l'intenzione di M-audio fosse quella di aggiornare la propria storica Hammer 88 inserendosi nella fascia di mercato, attualmente libera da concorrenza, dei 650 euro. Provata per un mese e poi restituita.Nello specifico:- Completa. Ha tutto. Fader, knob, pad. Volete qualcosa di qualità media senza dover comprare 3 prodotti diversi? Con la Hammer Pro 88 avete tutto quello che vi serve. Basta collegare il cavo usb e siete pronti.- Fader e knob, buona qualità.- Pads c'è di meglio, ma comunque sono usabili.- Tastini di controllo...rumorosi, non vi aspettate quelli gommosi silenzioni, aspettatevi la plastica dura che quando la premete sentite il solito "click" anni 80.- "schermo" talmente minimo che all'inizio fai fatica anche a capire dov'è. Ma d'altronde è una tastiera musicale non uno schermo dove guardare film.- Robusta? SI. Pesante? SI, procuratevi uno stand adatto al peso.- Keybed, mi pare proprio uguale a quello del fratello minore (Hammer88). Credo sia il cinese Medeli. Facendo un confronto con altri Keybed posso dire in ordine di "durezza", il Fatar-tp100 montato sulle komplete kontrol, Arturia, Studiologic è quello più duro e gommoso in assoluto. Il PHA-4 montato ad esempio sulle Roland è molto morbido. Questo delle M-Audio si posiziona a metà strada. Quindi se conoscete una delle tastiere da me elencate potete iniziare a capire cosa suonerete.PROBLEMI.Purtroppo la ruota del pitch-wheel non reagisce istantaneamente ma in ritardo rispetto al movimento che mettete in atto. Per vedere questo difetto in azione potete cercare su Youtube il video "m-audio pitch wheel issue". Sembra che la problematica sia stata segnalata 5 mesi fa a M-Audio ma non è stata ancora risolta.Ovviamente l'ho restituito.
NATHAN S.
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2021
I've been a user of m-audio products for a long time, but I've typically chosen to use the less expensive items like the Oxygen 49 and the Keystation 88. I'm not a performer, most of my use of these is for composition, so they fit me just fine. But I decided to get serious about learning piano and decided a hammer-action setup would be great. When I saw this coming out and that it came with a host of virtual instruments, it seemed like a steal at the price point. The steal turned out to be from m-audio.If you look at the packaging, it promises the hammer 88 software package comes with some starter DAWs (pro tools first, mpc beats, ableton live lite) and a host of virtual instruments: hybrid 3, Velvet, MiniGrand, Vacuum, Boom, DB-33, and Xpandi^2. If you do the research all these bits of of software add up to a pretty great value for a graded hammer-action keyboard with aftertouch that also has a plethora of faders and a drum pad. However, the download tool only gives you access to Hybrid 3, Minigrand, and Velvet. Vacuum, Boom, DB-33 and Xpandi are nowhere to be found.The first thing I did was try to contact support. I was on hold for 45 minutes and then the system hung up on me. So, I figured maybe they were busy due to quarantine and so forth, and decided to fill out a contact form. I heard nothing for over two weeks, and actually ended up getting a survey asking how they handled my issue. I wrote a review stating I never heard back. I also never heard back from that. So, I figured I'd try to go ahead and use the key they gave me in iLok to download DB-33 and see if it just works: it specifically says the software key for the hammer 88 package does not include DB-33. I did the same with the others, same issue.I tried calling the support number again, and someone answered! I told them the issue, and they told me they'd put me on hold to find out more info. I waited for about ten minutes and then was disconnected again.I decided to go ahead and just try to use some of the features as documented, and one of them is that this is supposedly configured to make using a DAW very simple. It even has presets for many common DAWs, like FL Studio, Pro Tools, Ableton, Logic, etc. The problem I ran into was that this didn't actually make it useful: the keybed becomes a series of confusing shortcuts that don't do anything meaningful, and the sliders aren't bound to anything useful. You're better off just leaving it in the default mode (which they call "preset") and configuring all the shortcuts yourself by binding them to the various midi inputs.After all this, is it still worth the money? Maybe. It's got great action, it's sturdy and very comfortable to play. I kind of wish they'd gone with waterfall or at least rounded edges rather than the "lipped" style, I don't think it adds much benefit and prevents you from comfortably doing glissandos or other open-hand performance techniques. That said, the keys feel amazing. Playing with the included Velvet plugin feels very similar to playing a real Rhodes. The grand piano that comes with MiniGrand is pretty good, though you may find that even the GarageBand Steinway feels more responsive. I might need to tweak the velocity curve or something.If I were to give anyone advice, I'd say maybe try the Hammer 88 without the Pro. It's a lot less expensive and the big benefit is the hammer-action keys, which are great.
bahman
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2021
So both products have serious flaws.Hammer 88: Cheap keybed. It's not FATAR. It's Williams Keybed. Velocity is inconsistent. You cannot change you midi channel with the keyboard. You need the editing software which hasn't been updated for about a year and you cannot use it on you updated computer(iMac, Monterey OS). Some of the softwares they giveaway with these products don't work anymore and you cannot install them (Eighty- Eight Ensemble).Hammer 88 Pro: faders and knobs have poor quality. FATAR keybed feels much better but very inconsistent in velocity and sensitivity. Same softwares issues as Hammer 88.I have returned Hammer 88 more than 2 weeks ago and they received the package 12 days ago and they haven't issued refund.
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