OK, it’s time for the first “gear” post. For the most part these will be about a single piece of equipment, sometimes including anecdotes of experiences using it, problems or issues where appropriate, reasons for getting it, and anything else that comes to mind.
Whilst I did use MIDI to hook up my PSS-680 and later PSR-420 to my early computers at a certain point I decided I wanted something “better”. Why? So whilst the PSR-420 had full size keys over the PSS-680 mini keys, it had no pitch bend, which the PSS-680 did have. Neither had a modulation wheel or other “real time” controllers.
Evolution was a company/brand that started with keyboards mainly dedicated for educational usage, but about the time I wanted something for computer sequencing they had a small range of USB controller keyboards, the “flagship” of sorts being their MK-361C.