Making a homebrew Beatmania game

[Mzo]

Sleep it off, lush.

[Cheebs]

Sont' make me typw somethiogn and not btoerh to backspace and fixc what i'm trying to sayh. You don't weant that.

:angd : <- just imagne the "bangd" smiley there.

[Tracer]

You've played Dance Dance Karnov right? It's the best rythem game ever.

[Diff-chan]

I've inspired myself to write a music teaching program.

Well... you have quite the muse.

[FirstBlood]

I can't believe i'm asking this... but can anyone reccomend a nice, cheap keyboard for something like this? Maybe in the $100 dollar range...

Haven't played piano for 5 years, and now I've got the urge.

[Nomi]

I can't believe i'm asking this... but can anyone reccomend a nice, cheap keyboard for something like this? Maybe in the $100 dollar range...

Haven't played piano for 5 years, and now I've got the urge.

I have a lower-end Casio model, model CTK-431 I think. I can't check at the moment... It's discontinued, but I got mine a year or so ago at a guitar center for about 60 bucks on sale. Search through eBay or hunt one down at music store, you may find one.

But, it works very well. It's simple, has a small but kinda crummy tone bank, but there's MIDI in/out. It'll be just fine if all you want is simple connectivity to work with a KM type of thing.

If you can't find that, most of the CTK-400 line of keyboards have the same features, but with varying sound banks and included songs. I've yet to find one without the same MIDI support.

I also got the MIDIman hub to connect to the computer. It's USB powered, as well. Not expensive at all; cost me about 20 bucks at the time. Don't know the manufacturing company, but I do know it's a very unappealing bright green color.

Hope that helped some.

[FirstBlood]

Thanks... I'm gonna try to get something off ebay after I deposit some money into my bank account.