This means that you could use it either as a stand‑alone MIDI controller, connected to your main rig using a MIDI cable, or via a USB cable if you want to use the audio features and supplied headset. The shoulder strap definitely adds to its live appeal, but the most important design aspect for stage posing is that it can be powered via its USB cable or by three AA batteries.
Most remarkable of all is the price - all of this will cost you less than £80 $200! Neat & Petiteīehringer have gone to some trouble to make the UMA25S as portable as possible, with an ultra‑slim 1.8‑inch thick casing in a fetching metallic red colour.
You also get a shoulder strap for on‑stage use, a 'mic and headphones' headset, and a soft gig bag. The UMA25S features two octaves of full‑sized, velocity‑sensitive keys, pitch and mod wheels, eight rotary MIDI controller knobs and eight MIDI‑programmable buttons, along with a USB audio interface with stereo line in/out, and a mic input and headphone output. What's black and white and red all over? Behringer's fantastically cheap new audio interface and MIDI controller, of course!īehringer already make MIDI controllers, keyboards and audio interfaces and, like various other manufacturers, they have now neatly combined all these functions into a single unit.
