Yamaha P45 as master keyboard
Hi, I am an Italian Keyboard player who would like to make the big leap from hardware keyboards to software (mainstage). Instead of purchasing a normal master keyboard without internal sounds, I am almost decided to buy
the YAMAHA P45 electric piano, that has the midi connection, so it can be used as a master keyboard. The advantages, in my opinion are:
1) It has weighted keys.
2) It has internal sounds (if something goes wrong with the mac you can still play)
3) It has an excellent quality/price ratio and it does not weight a lot so it is easily trasportable.
What's still holding me, though, it is the fact that the specs of the P45 say that it has only 64 notes of polyphony. Does this remains true also if it is connected as master keyboard to mainstage or not?
The second thing is that the P45 does not have all that controls (pads, keys, sliders, knobs) that would be useful to assign into mainstage to control patches, effects, playbacks, songs, expecially in a live situation. Is this a false problem? There are other ways or specific hardware to remotely control mainstahe during gigs? Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad english 🙂
Alfredo
