# The Most Flyest, Awesomest Keyboard Of All...

- Site: Analog Industries
- Author: Chris Randall
- Date: 2005-10-14
- URL: https://analogindustries.com/2005/10/the-most-flyest-awesomest-keyboard-of-all/

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Okay, persuant to our conversation of yesterday, here is the result of my extensive research in to what would constitute the best keyboard to control Nuendo, Photoshop, \_and\_ 3D Studio Max. [This](http://www.euphonix.com/post/products/mc/mc_guidedtour/mc01_intro.htm) is the single most amazing keyboard/worksurface/whatever that is available, the Optimus OLED keyboard included. From Euphonix (yeah, that Euphonix) and monikered the **MC**, it features a full 101-key keyboard, a trackball, a jog wheel, four motorized faders, 8 assignable knobs, and 56 (yes, that's _fifty-six_) "smart switches," with little LCD screens in them that show their current function. Oh, did I mention the built-in touchscreen?

![The Most Flyest, Awesomest Keyboard Of All...](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/mc_overhead.jpg)  
The assignable macro keys will work with anything, and the fader section is a HUI emulator, which will work with any application that can use a HUI as its control surface (which is all the DAWs that don't completely suck.) It is really happiest with the Eu-Con version of Nuendo, and has some specific features (monitor controls, talkback, etc.) that work only in a Eu-Con environment, but in short, this is the most bad-ass, configurable, smooth looking keyboard/controller/whatever on the face of the earth, and is completely without peers. I can't find a price anywhere, and it's too late to call Euphonix and ask, but I imagine it is in the realm of "if you have to ask..." Seriously, though. Now that I've seen this, I don't know how the fuck I ever got on without it. I wonder how much I could sell one of my kidneys for. They've only been slightly abused.

## Comments (3)

**inverseroom** (2005-10-14):

But there's no, you know, keyboard. Like as in music keyboards.

**shamann** (2005-10-14):

A price was mentioned on Gearslutz a while back, something like $20,000+ USD.

**whiteboysushi** (2005-10-14):

... 4 faders?