The picture above is a Behringer U-Control UMA25s. It was a Christmas present from my wife, and it's awfully good fun. I know, I hear you saying," but it's Behringer, aren't they a bit naff?"
Well I just don't care. this thing is light (around 2Kg) happily sits in the bottom of an overnight bag, has a stereo USB audio interface built in, comes with a headset mic and headphone combo, and hooked up to the macbook is a great low latency audio interface and midi keyboard for getting those ideas dow when they hit you.
Coupled with Garage Band (which I have only ever considered a toy up until now) and it is an ideal songwriting sketchpad. Long lonely hotel room business trip nights are now, officially a thing of the past. As I type, I'm sitting in my regulation hotel fluffy dressing gown, after a couple of hours noodling, and the best part of a new song in hand. Sure better than the usual slow death by CNN/MTV.
Oh, and as an added bonus, it comes with a guitar strap, so after the serious business of composing, you can wig out like Rick Wakeman doing widdly-widdly keyboard shreds.
Happy, happy happy...
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