CME Xkey Air 25

Portability is its biggest advantage..!

There are better midi keyboards around, sturdier and with more features... but if those are not there when you need they won't be of much help! While portability is its biggest merit, what is there in this keyboard in terms of features is well implemented and functional... All in all of you need portability this is a great little piece of gear...

Une vraie surprise positive!

Les + : - latence imperceptible (y’en a un poil, mais c’est vraiment par habitude que je la ressens, en vrai, c’est du chipotage) - poids plume - construction solide, matériaux de qualité - jouabilité exemplaire pour ce genre de touches et d’action Les - : - l’autocollant BT sur le dernier Do…minable! - le set-up n’est pas le plus intuitif (besoin de l’application) - le bruit des touches est vraiment too much En somme, une vraie bonne surprise, mais c’est vraiment pour des besoins spécifiques (setup d’appoint, voyage, exterieur) et un public précis (débutant, home producers, etc).

Portable for composing

Easy pack, fast ready to use and robust Al construction. All 5 stars for Xkey Air 25 ☺️

Looks nice, but not so useful.

I've bought it for doing music if I'm traveling with my macbook air.

Nice style that associated with apple brand. But the mostly for me was bluetooth connection, that (!) isn't work with Apple Macbook M1.

The 2-rd is velocity. It didn't work properly. I have 2 other keys, that I can use as controller for drums, synths (Moog and Korg) - and these are have a very nice velocity touch. If I use CME Air 25 the velocity works very strange - almost 100%. If you need play softly or with relative touch - you need to do "a preferences on your fingers".

At all - very good idea but not useful at all )

great and handy midi keyboard

great quality and size

keys feeling is alright for this size

I have it 2 years now and the battery life still remain the same

Very good battery quality

I will recommend

Handy and totally wire less.

Its plug and play (at least with a mac), no fuzz keyboard.

Looks great, the chassis is robust, the keys are fine, but the speed sensors are a bit finicky. There are lots of options to tweak if desired but it doesn't make much difference.

After trying this and the CME Air 37 keys, I would say that this is the better option by far because it's lighter and smaller, easier to move around. The 37 keys is an object that will use both hands to move it around safely most of the times. This one is manageable with one hand.

It looks lovely and feels nice, but it's too fragile

It's clearly designed after the apple bluetooth keyboard, down to the feel and finish. The keys have the exactly same distance as on your casual keyboard but are smaller themselves to facilitate for the frame. It feels slightly odd at first but you can easily adjust to it.

Bluetooth connectivity feels like magic. You press a button on the keyboard and then select it in your OS'es MIDI settings – or an iPhone – and then it just works. Instant boost to on-the-go creativity.

The pitch/mod controls done as buttons are tricky and you really need to get used to those. I'd be happier if the keyboard was just a notch narrower myself.

Now onto the sad part. It's VERY fragile. I got the official case and had it in my backpack twice (and the backpack wasn't even full – just the notebook and the keyboard). Somehow that was enough for the keys to start falling off and once they are off it's really non-trivial to clip them back on (and they feel more wobbly afterwards).

It's super slim, nice looking, and neat. Go for it if you want a stylish keyboard of your cramped desk but it's not fit for travels.

I like the keyboard - it is good for composing on the road - but CME didn't mention the fact that MIDI via Bluetooth is not supported by Windows and by majority of music software. I was very disappointed and returned it. I have bought CME Xkey 25 instead.

Keys easily fall off

This looks like a handy travel keyboard, but it has one major flaw - the keys can very easily snap off when the bag is in a backpack as they are protruding and are loosely attached. Once they've snapped off, there's no way to get them back on - it's broken.

I would not recommend this keyboard.