CME Xkey Air 25

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.

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
- le manque de précision rend le clavier à la limite du jouable par moment
- les indicateurs de batterie sont illisibles
- le software accompagnant est inutile au possible
- le prix est au moins 100€ trop elevé

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). Le prix est absolument incohérent et le clavier en lui même dépanne plus qu’autre chose.

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 )