Ive been wanting to dabble with digital music production. All software ive tried has so many menus and buttons and switches I get overwhelmed.
While looking up instruments on amazon I came across these pocket synthesizers called stylophones and similar like theremin that entry for about 40-50$.
These seem like cool little gadgets to toy around with and maybe get a foot in the door to learn how to do digital music production. Does anyone have experience with these things? Are they worth messing with?
I have an old mixer for my condenser microphone that plugs into laptop I think I can plug aux line in from these mini synths to the mixer.
I would get a small midi keyboard with drum pad, it would be much more versatile
Came here to say this, get a MIDI keyboard OP. It’s basically your gamepad for digital music production. You mostly have at least 2 octaves of piano keys and a drum pad, also some knobs and sliders you can map. They are very well supported by modern audio production software.
A very cheap one would be the Akai MPK Mini MK3 for example.
Stylophones are novelty toys. Sure you can use them for a specific lofi sound but if you’re looking to produce more “serious” music spend your money elsewhere.
