For All You Miko & Neko Disbelievers!

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I'd love to have one. Wish you could get it with Mac guts though. But basically a nicely packaged, customizable, portable midi studio. I don't see how you could go wrong with that for dance, r&b and hip hop. I just ain't ready to drop that kind of loot. I'd rather spend that kind of dough on an Apogee Rosetta 200 converter and a couple of Neve 1073 pre amps to add to my current set up, which consists of a 20 inch iMac (2.4GHz Intel CoreDuo, 4Gb RAM, 320Gb 7200 RPM drive), M-Powered Pro Tools with production toolkit (48 tracks), Cubase 4, Reason 4, M-Audio 1814 firewire and M-Audio Keystation 88 controller. I have the FlossModeStudio Triton and Motif clones for Reason NNTX. So I really don't see a need right now for an Open Labs, but if I were starting over from scratch, it would be an appealing option. Especially the Timbaland edition with the sounds. One Love.
 
I have the Miko and I love it just for the speed and the ability to have a PC soley for music making everything at a single touch I am loading it with the Best sounding VST's I am using the RME Firface 800 as my soundcard wired with my MPC 4000...adding the Korg radius or the V synth for that true analog synth sound...mimik the Motif for the real instruments...and just keep up with my search for drum sounds....I will post a video early jan once I am setup in the studio....
 
sorry to be a newbie, but what is this thing? can someone please explain in newbie terms
 
Why would you need an explanation? A simple Google search ... or even a search on YouTube ... would provide you a more complete picture than you could hope to get from asking someone here to describe it.
 
^^^Ignore Dansgold, he doesn't like to be helpful. A Neko/Miko is the little $20 playskool keyboard that dude was walking around playing melodies on in the movie "hustle and Flow". They've become real popular for beatmakers.:cheers:
 
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why u gotta fag-around? Im just asking what the hell it is, I doubt its a ****in 20$ keyboard...*****
 
jpixels said:
why u gotta fag-around? Im just asking what the hell it is, I doubt its a ****in 20$ keyboard...*****
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"Fag around?" never heard that phrase...

You ain't gotta beleive me. I was trying to help you out, bruh. "Whoop that Trick" was made on it, and the market went crazy, everyone wanted one. Real talk.
 
deRaNged 4 Phuk'dup said:
^^^Ignore Dansgold, he doesn't like to be helpful. A Neko/Miko is the little $20 playskool keyboard that dude was walking around playing melodies on in the movie "hustle and Flow". They've become real popular for beatmakers.:cheers:
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No, I LOVE to be helpful. I also have enough experience to know that being "helpful" doesn't mean keeping people mental infants by spoonfeeding them stuff they can easily learn on their own. Why is that considered cruel?
 
dansgold said:
No, I LOVE to be helpful. I also have enough experience to know that being "helpful" doesn't mean keeping people mental infants by spoonfeeding them stuff they can easily learn on their own. Why is that considered cruel?
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Trust me, I know that, it's just hard for people who want to be spoonfed to believe, lol.
 
I think its nice to be able to load all of your vst's into one machine and take it with you . To me it really does alot of things that a normal keyoard workstation just can't do. I would still use my Triton for some sounds and use my 4000 to sequence my songs. No one machine is going to be a perfect machine for all production or music but it could be used as a weapon if you know how to use it. I think that for the most part Open Labs has a pretty good product.

myspace.com/projectzeropro
 
why not buy 2 of these... and an oasys and call yourself ....


a beetmaker

do what works for you
 
My thing is, I've yet to hear one thing said about a Miko/Neko that can't be said about a laptop. And you see the size of thos f**kers? It's like me duct taping my desktop and keyboard together and walking around with that, lol.

Just thhrow a laptop, midi keyboard, and an interface in a backpack, way more mobile and the exact same freakin' thing!!!
 
I don't think the price of the miko is bad... people complain cause you can't go download on from the local pirate site.

but, you could get a laptop and controller and do the same
 
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I don't think the price of the miko is bad... people complain cause you can't go download on from the local pirate site.
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Just like you can't download a laptop either. On a Miko you can also install any file sharing program, connect it to the internet and download (read: steal) stuff just like you can with a regular PC
 
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At the end of the day these Videos from the first post are nothing more than advertisement vids for their product - a Windows PC with a soundinterface and MIDI controller buildt into one unit plus a few bundled sounds and audio software (of which most of it is freeware anyway)

Even if I had multiple times the money to buy one I would rather still get myself a decent desktop PC or a laptop and attach the equipment to it I want.
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True, my thoughts exactly, Ill be cranking out at least 9 saws soon with my polar and well see what this 4k computer on steroids can do.

Detune anyone?
 
another part of the debate you guys are leaving out is the OS...what happens when the windows halflife runs out? you know windows is gonna barf eventually, even if you just use the thing to play solitaire. what happens when you get that blue screen? before somebody turns this into a pc mac thread I'm a PC user, but that's just the way it is.
 
After researching this thing, and playing one, I would prefer to donate the money to Greenpeace or starving children, before wasting a single peany on this piece of s*it equipment.

Is one of the most crappiest, overpriced gear I ever seen in my whole life. You must be really sick or have a lot, LOT of money to buy one.


$7499
http://www.audiomidi.com/Neko-76---76-key---2-4GHz-Core2Duo-System-P8921.aspx

Man, I can't simple believe the price of this whole, heavy, incredible piece of sh*t.
If don't have anything better to do with your money, I mean, if you don't REALLY have anything better to waste it, pay $7499 and grab one


5 of my synths, Roland Juno 106, Roland Jp 8080, Akai Ax 60 and Emu command station, Roland SP 808ex, sound together sound better than Miko,have more knobs, sliders and keys to tweak and play, and I didn't spend more than $2000 on them.
 
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Build your own.

Laptop - $1500-2000
Presonus Firebox(the exact Preamp) - $300
Weighted Key Controller - $200-400
Behringer BCF2000 - $200

$3,000 tops.

I think people are brainwashed by the OS as well. It's just XP Pro tweaked. I'm tweaking my Vista computer for optimal performance with music as we speak, and as bad as "vista is supposed to suck", a few sticks of Ram and a Vista Recommended video card later, this thing is a beast. The Dell may be retiring soon.
 
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