Is It For You? | Lumi Keys Studio Edition Review Pros and Cons

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Is the Lumi Keys Studio Edition keyboard worth it? It is great for beginners and those looking to improve their piano playing skills or simply play music on the move. Checkout the full review in this video.
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00:00 - Intro
00:15 - Design
01:53 - Software
04:42 - Pros
05:56 - Cons
06:59 - Final Thoughts
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@kharma777 8 ай бұрын

Best review I've seen on this keyboard so far. Carry on good sir.

@salbill4484 11 ай бұрын

What I notice is that there are no reviews from normal people talking about how good it is, only content creators... kinda makes me think it's not good.

@thisisalbe 11 ай бұрын

Meh it’s not that good unless you need to learn to play and you want to get the app (extra money). -Original Content creator

@salbill4484 11 ай бұрын

@@thisisalbe yes I'm shopping around for stuff to help me learn, they look good but...

@justinbridgewater7055 Жыл бұрын

Great episode and I love you're available tutorials do another one about creating virtual layers and sound construction and how to organize the work flow

@stevencgold 10 ай бұрын

Excellent & concise review! Thank you.

@thisisalbe 9 ай бұрын

Very welcome!

@S_e_a_n Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the great review Al Be! I've been looking for a budget MPE and your video helped me decide to take the plunge. Cheers!

@thisisalbe Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped.

@Supernumerary 9 ай бұрын

This is a very comprehensive review. Thank You!

@thisisalbe 9 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@RodrigoStanger 8 ай бұрын

hey dude, great video. thanks a lot

@tonderr 6 ай бұрын

Great review! I recently ordered my Roli Lumi, and I'm really looking forward to learning piano and creating synthwave sounds/songs. This helped a lot understanding the software how the product actually works, thanks!

@thisisalbe 6 ай бұрын

Great to hear!

@AeGeR97 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@davewebster5120 3 ай бұрын

thanks for this review! This is how I want to learn piano, guitar hero style. Are there other services or products that use that without a monthly subscription?

@ibnbrydie Ай бұрын

Great review

@thisisalbe Ай бұрын

Thanks

@Beatmakinmc Жыл бұрын

I’ve been on the fence about this but I do want an MPE keyboard and have been wanting a blu tooth keyboard for iOS. Was glad to hear about the build quality. Leaning towards getting one.

@thisisalbe Жыл бұрын

It will definitely address both of those. It's best quality is being able to just play on your phone wherever you take it.

@Beatmakinmc Жыл бұрын

@@thisisalbe dope, yeah I wanna use it for the the Animoog. I’ve used the iPad and animoog as my MPE midi controller in the meantime, very cool.

@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole 5 ай бұрын

Must share something very important. I see each note as having a color and shape. And the notes seem to follow the rainbow. When I saw this keyboard I flipped out. Besides the B note, it is exactly the same as I see the colors. Not only that, but C as red explains why love songs are always written in C. You can take any Eurythmics song about love and it’s in C major. Even odd songs of theirs like “Love is a Stranger.” Still in C. Over the years I have been writing out an entire Theory of Pitch Psychology that explains the thematic and psychological implications of any given key. And this is directly related to perfect pitch. Which basically is the skill of identifying and recognizing the textural quality or “coloring” of each note. I’m very happy that LUMI is on the right track with this keyboard, and I have been writing to them about their approach to marketing the keyboard. Including its smaller size, which is matches the 7/8ths keyboard of specialty pianos made for people with small hands.

@davidmacdonald6611 4 ай бұрын

Does the Lumi keys have any advantages over the block m? Im not really intrested in the tuition side of the lumi.

@indigosnow_ 7 ай бұрын

It looks snazzy, i'd get it as a gift for an aspiring player

@kenkaneki666 Жыл бұрын

Great review! Thanks a lot.

@thisisalbe 11 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@01kmacias Жыл бұрын

Do you by chance have and use this with an mpc? I'm looking to purchase this to keep me in key, but not sure if the correct keys would light up when connected to the mpc. or if it has to be connected to some other app to do that?

@nolanlee5517 2 ай бұрын

I’m still waiting on this answer too

@funrush6546 9 ай бұрын

Does the sound goes out of the keyboard or do I need to connect it to a PC ? Or a phone ? It would be really cool if I could just get the keyboard on my knees, connect a headphone and voilaaa I use to travel (bus/train/car) for long trips (more than 6h) and if I need to take out my PC it's complicated...

@NrdCool 3 ай бұрын

There’s no audio out on LUMI keys itself.

@PeterSramka 6 ай бұрын

I am surprised that you didn’t mention the biggest con of all: The keys are smaller than piano keys. This means any skills you develop on this keyboard are not directly transferable to a piano or other keyboards.

@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole 5 ай бұрын

In some ways that’s actually a pro because as a 7/8ths keyboard, people with smaller hands (especially women AND children) can play this keyboard. In fact, as of 2024, this is the ONLY 7/8ths keyboard of its kind. (The rest are actually real acoustic pianos built with the narrower keys (8 keys fitted into the length of 7). These keyboards’(including the LUMI) actually no problem switching sizes. It is a myth that finger memory is fixed to a particular distance. I’m a pianist, and I got on a friends old 80s Yamaha mini keyboards. I was shocked at how I almost instantly my fingers adapted to it. I explain this on my channel. It’s the same concept as the fact that finger-memory is relative to the respective size. This explains why we have the same handwriting whether we write on a small piece of paper or on a large one. I’m actually RECOMMENDING this to my female students and my child students . Less strain on the joints. This keyboard allows the handful of of exceptionallly gifted young children I teach to do far more than would be able to do on an acoustic piano.

@PeterSramka 5 ай бұрын

@@Acoustic-Rabbit-HoleI stand corrected.

@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole 5 ай бұрын

@@PeterSramka You are so civil! Thanks. Seems like so much of current commentaries turns into fights! // Im really freaking out on my own music theory, though. Thanks for being part of my journey! -The Acoustic Rabbit Hole

@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole 5 ай бұрын

@@PeterSramka oh, and nice Satie performance. Most play it too fast!

@PeterSramka 5 ай бұрын

@@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole I have tried to play keyboards with the little mini keys, and my piano skills didn’t transfer. Seems like people can adjust to different size keys, but only if the size difference is not too big.

@tomsiegel9759 4 ай бұрын

I am trying to figure out if I can use this keyboard completely remotely. Like if I have my phone and a Bluetooth speaker, can I play it with a reasonable range of functionality around a campfire? Does anyone know how that goes?

@bradicu5 2 ай бұрын

I’d say no, this is a midi keyboard so doesn’t have any sounds to my understanding.

@Xenodys Жыл бұрын

Do you have a hand model now?

@thisisalbe Жыл бұрын

Oh --- she didn't tell you? I'm sorry you found out this way.

@Xenodys Жыл бұрын

@@thisisalbe No. I don't talk to SB that often. Moving on, I hear that a good nights sleep is important for body building. You should have already been asleep and not playing DI2.

@jorglohken5566 8 ай бұрын

how does it compare to the Seaboard Block?

@GortinTime 7 ай бұрын

Seaboard is basically a more complex version, 5d instead of 4d, much more expensive, but overall just an upgrade (harder to use tho). Also Lumi can be used to learn piano which is something to take into account

@jorglohken5566 7 ай бұрын

@@GortinTime Thanks for the explanation. Yeah, I also thought it offered me some more options, but 5:4 is not that much and, as far as playability is concerned, I guess, with Seaboard there might be a learning curve that I still have to master whereas Lumi, at that price, if all else fails, would still serve me as an extendable mobile input keyboard, since I know how to play the piano, which is precisely why I sprung USD199 each on two Miselu C.24 eons ago, which never lived up to the promise of providing even the mobile input aspect because of bluetooth latency issues. I think I'll check out the Lumi next, then, it would upgrade my setup immediately and hopefully give me some new options and, when I feel experimental, I could check out the Seaboard. But at this point, I just want to get my mobile keyboarding back on track. Plus I still have this somewhat more ambitious idea of converting one or two of those little things into the base for a keytar :-D

@GortinTime 7 ай бұрын

@@jorglohken5566 Even tho 5 to 4 might seem a small upgrade, if u see it's presentation u can see that it has way more things to do, like two different slides aside from the keys for example, I'd say that if u are going for electronic and SFX, the seaboard is much better, but for just a nice and functional keyboard the Lumi is definitely a much cheaper option which suits u better

@creativemojo8531 6 ай бұрын

This thing should have been recalled day one for having no off button! I have 3 of these and they each get stuck in the 3 lights crash mode once a week!!!

@thisisalbe 6 ай бұрын

Oh wow! I didn't realize this. Thanks for sharing.

@creativemojo8531 6 ай бұрын

@@thisisalbe After the last crash i was told to try the latest update. Haven't had the issue in a week so far so good. Wish they would have announced this fix.